THREE-bedroom homes will be rented out for £800 per month in a scheme designed to create cheaper housing.

A total of 17 groups of local people are working with Brighton and Hove Community Land Trust (BHCLT) on affordable, secure housing for Brighton and Hove.

BHCLT has been supporting groups of people to come together and organise, or build, their own affordable homes as part of its Community-Led Housing Programme, supported by Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC).

Supported groups include the Bunker Housing Co-op, which is a self-build group due to start building their first two homes this month. Each three-bedroom house is approximately 100 sq metres and due to cost about £175,000 each to build.

They will then be rented to members of the co-operative for £800 a month per home.

Sussex Cohousing is another group working with BHCLT and aiming to develop a co-housing project in or near Brighton.

Their vision is a community of 15-35 households (each with their own front door), collaboratively managed by the residents and working on a mixed tenure model, including renting and ownership. They are currently exploring different sites in the local area, on which they will be able to build.

Lilliput housing co-operative is planning a neighbourhood of nine small, low cost homes for those most in need of secure, genuinely affordable housing in Brighton and Hove.

A spokesman for the BHCLT said: “It would run as a co-operative with its members as both tenant and landlord.

“They have been making great progress on the project over the past few months and are in the process of obtaining land and finances.

The trust is celebrating this work at its annual general meeting and celebration event on Wednesday, September 12 at One Church, Gloucester Place, Brighton.

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