About Us

Lands End Peninsula Community Land Trust (LEPCLT) was established as a charitable organisation in 2010. We set up with the goal of providing affordable housing for local people and establishing a Local Community Supported food growing project.

Those early missions delivered 8 homes in Croft Mear, Pendeen (end of Moorland Close) and supported the community to buy and show it could run Bosavern Community Farm. 6 of those homes are now owned and rented out to local people through Cornwall Housing (part of Cornwall Council) and 2 are owned by local people.

As a Land Trust, we are still responsible for the open spaces and parking areas there. The Farm is now successfully and independently run by its own body, Bosavern Community Enterprises.

Our projects since then have been to support the community to fundraise and provide an excellent skate park in St Just and to obtain land and planning consent to provide the first community cemetery, nationally, in Pendeen. We are also looking to provide some affordable and sustainable homes in St Just.

Objectives

Our objectives are formally listed as:

1. The provision of houses or hostels and any associated amenities for persons in necessitous circumstances upon terms appropriate to their means.

2. The provision for the aged, disabled, handicapped (whether mentally or physically) or chronically sick persons in need thereof, of houses or hostels and any associated amenities specially designed or adapted to meet the disabilities and requirements of such persons.

3. The provision of services, advice or assistance upon terms appropriate to their means to aged, disabled, handicapped (whether mentally or physically) or chronically sick persons in need thereof.

4. The provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interest of social welfare with the object of improving the conditions of life for the residents of the area of benefit.

5. The relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit amongst the residents of the area of benefit.

6. The advancement of education and vocational training amongst the residents of the area of benefit and the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms.

7. The protection or conservation of the environment including the conservation, restoration and re-establishment of trees in particular broad leafed trees plants and all forms of wildlife and thereby to secure the enjoyment by the residents of the area of benefit of the natural environment.

8. The provision of public health facilities.