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Overview: Negotiating
Start here for an overview and introduction to the topic of communications and negotiating around leases. This document is aimed at landowners and community growing groups to give an overview of what is involved in negotiations over land and leases and guide them through the challenges to a compromise which satisfies both parties. To read the overview, simply click the document link below:
Landowners: Process For Offering Land
This generic guide takes landowners through the process involved in allowing a community garden to set up operation on your land. It gives landowners a broad step-by-step process and links to useful information resources created by CLAS. However, it is important to bear in mind that this is an example and different circumstances and different groups may require variations on this process.
Leases: Flowchart for Lease Type
The Community Land Advisory Service has created a flowchart to guide you to find the right type of lease or licence for your particular project or interest.

Case Study: Wild Elements
Wild Elements is a social enterprise based in North Wales, dedicated to getting people outdoors and closer to nature in a fun way, through forest schools and outdoor play schemes and community projects and events. It was set up by Thomas Cockbill and Resi Tomat in March 2013. They had previously been working for the National Trust at Penrhyn Castle, near Bangor, Gwynedd, carrying out education activities. When that project finished, they could see a need for nature-based play services in the local area.

Case Study: Borth Community Gardens
Borth Community Gardens is an initiative to create a space for local people to grow their own food in a communal environment. The allotments and community gardens are located near St. Matthew's Church, Borth, Ceredigion. Activities on the site include gardening, work parties by locals and visiting groups, as well as Open Day events and more informal get-togethers. In addition to cultivated land, the gardens are now home to several chickens, a couple of ducks and bee hives on the community garden section.
Flowchart For Woodlands/Orchards Agreement
The Community Land Advisory Service has created a flowchart to guide community growing groups or landowners to find the right type of lease or agreement for woodland projects in England and Wales.
CLAS Advisory: Community Lettings Questionnaire
The aim of this document is to aid communication between a community group and landowner, regarding a proposed project on a piece of land. By completing the questionnaire the community group will address a number of important issues that will be key to the project’s success. The landowner will be reassured of what form the project will take.

Case Study: Terre de Liens
Terre de Liens is a French civil society organisation created in 2003 to address the difficulties faced by organic and peasant farmers in securing agricultural land. Land prices are high and land market so competitive that access to land has become a major bottleneck for farmers seeking new farms or additional land to maintain their current activities.