What is Windsor Ascot & Maidenhead Community Land Trust?
Inspired by the growing national Community Led housing movement, Windsor Ascot & Maidenhead Community Land Trust (WAMCLT) is a not-for-profit, volunteer run Community Benefit Society that exists to own and operate land and other assets for the benefit of the local community in perpetuity. We aim to act as an area wide CLT that will deliver financially and environmentally sustainable housing and other community facilities (such as community centres, pubs, or open spaces) for local people across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
Our Vision is to
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enable community projects involving community ownership of land, in perpetuity, within the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead area
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enable the community to build truly affordable and sustainable homes
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help deliver a community service or project clearly linked to the needs of the local communities, such as a shop or cafe or community centre, or food growing project
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We are registered as a Community Benefit Society which means we are
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registered with the Financial Conduct Authority with clear legal rules
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owned by our members and run democratically
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managed via a voluntary Board of Directors, elected by the members (each member has a vote)
We are a member of the National CLT Network and are also supported by Collaborative Homes (Oxfordshire)
What is a CLT?
What are Community Land Trusts and why do people get involved? This video explains how CLTs work and benefit local housing needs.
Community-led solutions to the housing crisis
Community-led housing and CLTs
CLTs often work in conjunction with other methods, such as Co-operatives, Co-Housing, and Self or Custom Build, all developed through local people working together. We aim to bring groups of people together and collaborate to build, convert, or buy affordable and sustainable homes that suit them.
We aim to:
- Connect local people that want to start their own housing projects
- Develop ideas to get projects going
- Raise awareness and build knowledge
- Collaborate with local landowners, councils, employers, industry professionals
- Discover suitable land and properties and organize and collaborate to buy them
- Raise funding
If any of the above applies to you and you would like to discuss with us …please get in touch – see our contact page.
Why not join us?
Your support is important to our work and we welcome you to come and join us.
Anyone with a local connection to the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead can apply to become a member, it only costs £1 for a voting share and £5 p.a. towards running the Society. See our Membership page for more details.
Alternatively, if you would like more information, please use the Contact Us button to get in touch.
Projects we are working on:
November 2025.Exciting New Rural Housing Project in the west of the Borough
We are delighted to have been approached by a landowner and developer in the west of the Borough to work with them to help shape a much needed small affordable housing project for local people in a rural area. WAMCLT will be helping the developers to create an acceptable scheme for planning and to work with the community to take this potential project forward. We will be releasing more details in due course.
West Windsor/Oakley Green planned new Community Centre
In September 2025 WAMCLT was approached by the developers to help them plan for a brand new community building and open space in this major new housing development of 320 homes west of Windsor. These facilities must be provided under the Planning Permission and section 106 legal agreement with The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead. The Community Building is scheduled to be ready late in 2027.
WAMCLT has drafted a Community Building Management Plan for the developers and this plan is now with RBWM, and they have to make some decisions about the details of what the developer must provide.
The CLT is very excited to be planning for this opportunity, which is really needed at this end of Windsor, and even more so when the 320 new homes are completed. We hope to be building a Steering Group for this project and doing full community consultations in the New Year