Policy and Research

Find out more about Community Assets and what the DTA is doing to promote their use.

The DTA is building on recent successes to continue promoting community assets, providing support to members who are currently involved in asset transfer, and lobbying for further developments in community asset ownership

Asset Base Development: Case Studies - Currently not in use

Community Assets: Additional Resources Useful resources from the DTA and other organisations on how to develop a community asset

Community Assets Case Studies Examples of development trusts that have successfully undertaken asset base development and asset transfer projects

Community Right To Buy - currently not in use Inspired by success in SCotland, the DTA is proposing a campaign for a "Community right to buy"

Quirk Review Quirk review findings on community asset management and ownership were launched on 15 May at the Burton Street Project, a Sheffield based development trust and member of the Development Trusts Association (DTA). The report states: ‘there are no substantive impediments to the transfer of public assets to communities. It can be done, indeed it has been done legitimately and successfully in very many places.’