Understanding community assets

Community assets are assets that are owned by a local community. Bringing a local asset into community ownership is not easy, but when achieved can become a beating heart of the neighbourhood.

Often, community assets become viable by being associated with a community business. Some such example businesses include:

  • Community Pubs

  • Community Halls

  • Community Shops

  • Community Cafes

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Creating a community asset in your area involves a number of steps, for some of which Land Explorer can be helpful tool.

Finding a potential property

Usually when a group forms to take on a community asset you'll have the property in mind. But in some cases it can be helpful to search the LandExplorer map. Often local assets come into community hands from the local council, the church or a local landlord. In the following video we show you how to use LandExplorer to find properties owned by one of these groups.

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Finding the owner of a property

Another case might be that a local building goes up for sale - a local pub or potential shopfront. In this case it might be helpful to try and find the owner of the building. LandExplorer can help you to do this. In this video we show you how.

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Grabbing images of a property

LandExplorer offers both OS Map and satellite images. These can make useful images to be able to share with your community when discussing a potential building. In this video we walk you through how to screenshot images from LandExplorer ready for sharing with your group.

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Creating a map of potential properties with your community group

In this video we walk through the steps of creating a map with information from different potential community assets, and then sharing it via email with others in your community group.

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