We spoke with Deborah Glass Woodin, former local councillor, activist, occasional human bollard and current Director of Oxfordshire Community Land Trust (OCLT) about the launch of their recent project Croft’s Court, which has built eight new permanently affordable homes in the Vale of White Horse on a formerly vacant brownfield site. 

The project hopes to bring residents together and democratise the management of the building through the creation of a tenant-managed co-operative. 

Deborah offered up the ingredients of grit, determination, and simply making something happen, that can’t be underestimated – adopting the principle of show, don’t tell.