Relevant stewardship resources and further information

From patchwork to tapestry: Overcoming barriers to planning for long-term stewardship in existing communities (TCPA, January 2024)

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The contexts in which retrofitting stewardship occurs can be vastly different, from new housing developments with a patchwork of existing planning permissions and management companies to council-led estate regeneration projects.

In this report, we draw out common lessons from these experiences to help those seeking to achieve holistic, whole-place approaches to stewardship in different contexts. 

The Heart of the Matter: Emerging Lessons in Long-Term Stewardship (TCPA, March 2022)

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This research report provides an overview of emerging lessons from new and existing places which are exploring long-term stewardship. Including: 

• An overview of the wider context and debates around stewardship including current policy 
• An overview of the challenges local authorities are facing in relation to stewardship of new communities and sharing lessons from this 
• Case studies from places that are working on stewardship models  
• Sharing learning from long-established stewardship organisations, including places with Schemes of Management, and those established through the New Towns programme. 

Guide 9: Long-Term Stewardship.  (TCPA, December 2017)

Guidance through the range of types of stewardship bodies and setting out principles for success in planning and paying for long-term stewardship and running a good stewardship body.

Built Today, Treasured Tomorrow: A practical guide to long-term stewardship, (TCPA, January 2014)

Designed to help those who plan and build new places to secure a good-long term future for community assets setting out imaginative approaches to funding and management to empower local communities to take control or have a say in the running of local assets

• Sustainable Stewardship: Setting-up structures for community-led governance on strategic sites, Public Practice, Dec. 2020

• Local Planning and stewardship of green spaces, Shared Assets, Sept. 2019

• Outline Stewardship and Management Plan, Grovsner Developments Ltd, June. 2020

• Building Communities, Localis, 2021

• Long-term stewardship of green spaces: When urban regeneration meets social regeneration – Part One, The Land Trust, Sept. 2021

• Long-term stewardship of green spaces: When urban regeneration meets social regeneration – Part Two, The Land Trust, Sept. 2021

• Delivering successful stewardship organisations for garden communities, Pinsent Masons, August 2024

• Homes England Toolkit: provides information about to plan, design and develop a new garden community
• Building with Nature: sets out guidance on how to deliver and manage high-quality green infrastructure
• The Community Land Trust Network: network of organisations that are run by ordinary people to develop and manage homes and assets important to that community 
• The Land Trust: a charity that owns and manages public open spaces such as country parks, natures reseves and woodlands for community benefit 
• Bournville Village Trust: an organisation created to maintain and improve Bournville, an example of a stewardship organisation 
• Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation: a self-funding charitable organisation investing for the long term benefit of communities in Letchworth Garden City   
• Shared Assets: an organisation that supports the development of new models of managing land
• Rethinking Parks: a joint programme by Nesta, The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund exploring innovative ways to manage and finance parks in the UK.