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Community ownership of physical assets: Challenges, complexities and implications

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  • Sarah Skerratt
  • Clare Hall

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Within rural development policy and practice there is increasing emphasis on asset ownership and management by communities, emphasizing empowerment, inclusion and securing of local futures. Asset-Based Community Development and Community Capitals models support this view. To the majority, this is part of an appropriate, normative shift towards realizing rights of place-based communities. A minority have concerns over the largely unspoken challenges and risks. We review these contentions within the context of new data relating to the totemic rural village hall. We conducted a survey of 347 village hall committees, and present our findings within an assets framework. We highlight complexities where: built assets may be liabilities; the financial asset-base of village halls is not robust; human assets are vulnerable in terms of succession and governance. Our findings show the need for: assessing complexities of asset ownership; evaluating community capacity for asset ownership; providing support where required; and longer-term investment rather than short-term spend. We thus qualify the normative drive towards asset ownership as the mechanism for sustainable economic development.

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  • Sarah Skerratt & Clare Hall, 2011. "Community ownership of physical assets: Challenges, complexities and implications," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 26(3), pages 170-181, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:loceco:v:26:y:2011:i:3:p:170-181
    DOI: 10.1177/0269094211401491
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