What is the optimum size for a Community Gateway?
There is no optimum size for a Community Gateway, but the Community Gateway has been designed as a large scale housing organisation within which small scale community organisations and initiatives can be developed. A Community Gateway approach would not be applicable if it made no sense to identify Local Community Areas within the larger housing organisation. So an estate of say 1,000 homes where it made more community sense for the homes to be treated as one unit should consider existing community led housing structures and not the Gateway approach. The key issue is at what community level ordinary people likely to identify. In some cases, this could be at a level of as few as 50 homes, and the Community Gateway model is designed to ensure that communities can engage at that level if they wish to.
