These were initially earmarked for habitation but have since been deemed uninhabitable - one has no roof. It's such a beautiful, beautiful idea. Related Topics. We don't suddenly want all the white middle class investors.
In fact, the CLT has deliberately sold them below market value. De group Assemble won the art award in for their work regenerating fro houses in Toxteth, Liverpool.
Some locals have clearly watched the Turner whirlwind with a large dose of irreverent scepticism. Liverpool's Turner Prize-winning streets - one year on media captionSumuyya Khader left and Jade Crompton work in the Granby Workshop Erika Rushton, chair of the land trust, the residents' group that has worked with Assemble and has sold the houses, said they wanted to find a legal way to ensure the houses remained affordable in the future.
The winter garden is the most amazing, incredible thing and it will be four doors away from me.
I have Housrs a lot of respect for them and quite a lot of love for them. These young people didn't know what couldn't be done, so they did it. The workshop is "the one achievement" since the Turner Prize win, according to Lewis Jones from de collective Assemble.
Since the Turner nomination, every house has been decorated with colourful murals - nothing to do with the official Turner project, but they deserve a prize of their own. And that is the true calling of the artist. So there were not exactly winners and losers, but that brought some tensions I think. Many more properties have been done up by the council, housing associations and private individuals, while others are still rotting.
On the other side, green hoardings surround the next two houses.
If you have a story suggestion entertainment. Assemble came up with the idea after peering through the grill of a derelict house on a neighbouring street to see the front room being reclaimed by nature. Five houses renovated by Assemble have already been rented out, but these three are the first to be sold. A covenant on those three houses, which are on Cairns Street, means that if they are sold on in the future, it must be at below market value, as calculated using average wages in the area.
They are also turning a boarded-up corner shop into a permanent workshop to allow the fixtures and fittings that were deed for the houses to be sold online. The attention from the Turner Prize "brought stresses and strains as well as good things", Ms Rushton admits. Turner Prize image captionLocal people were given priority to buy the three renovated houses The first houses to be sold through a Turner Prize-winning renovation scheme have been given "anti-gentrification" clauses so locals can afford them.
Assemble's fireplaces - made using brick, slate and stone that was reclaimed from the houses themselves - are visible through the curtainless windows. They work in a way that makes a difference.
But the fact that these houses contain Turner Prize-winning des has not been used to push up the prices. They are empty as they await their new owners. It's a major political piece of art, I think, and it's beautifully done.
Assemble have completed work on eight houses owned by the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust so far, with five let out and three sold. So instead of being brought back to life as houses, work is starting any day now to turn dor into a winter garden, with a glazed roof and rampant greenery. Some people really advantaged from that profile and publicity and not everybody did.
Once they have bought it, the deeds also say they cannot sell the house on for a big profit - it must always be sold below market value, as calculated using the average Liverpool wage.
Around the corner, one critic has daubed the words "arty farty" on a brick wall. Related Topics. Assemble were awarded the prestigious prize for their collaboration with the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust CLT - a group of residents who have fought for years to toxgeth the area back from dereliction. And we've found more demand than we could have met.
It's done a good thing for us there. If you have a story suggestion entertainment. This year's Turner Prize winner will be announced in London on Monday evening.