UK Cohousing Network announces its latest event, supported by NESTA -

Speeding the Growth of Mixed-tenure Cohousing

• Thursday, 22 July 2010
• 1:30 - 4:45
• LUMEN URC (Community Space 1)
• 88 Tavistock Place
• London
• WC1H 9RS

There has been a recent surge of interest in cohousing from housing providers, local and national government and the public. This important meeting provides a forum to discuss the next steps needed to take affordable cohousing from vision to reality. The programme will:

• describe recent developments in mixed tenure cohousing
• provide an update on partnerships between RSLs and cohousing groups
• explore the implications of emerging government policy for local housing trusts and the self-organised housing sector for future cohousing developments.

A detailed programme will be sent to those registering.

Speakers will include:

• Stephen Hill, RICS, Director, C2O futureplanners
• Dinah Roake, Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)
• Sarah Berger, UK Cohousing Network
• Alan Heeks, Threshold Centre & Bridport Cohousing
• Bruce Moore, CEO, Hanover Housing
• Synergy Housing
• Lifetime Community (senior cohousing group)
• Berkshire Cohousing
• Viridian Housing

Who Should Attend?

This event is designed for professionals in housing policy and practice and should be of particular interest to registered social landlords and other housing providers contemplating cohousing.

Tickets

Tickets for this meeting cost £15. Places are limited so people must register and pay here. Those who have already expressed an interest in the event must register and pay here.

Cohousing is a way of living which brings individual households together to share and manage common aims and facilities while also enjoying their own self-contained accommodation and personal space. Originating in Scandinavia forty years ago the main features of cohousing communities are: they are set up and run by their members for mutual benefit; members are consciously committed to living as a community; developments are designed to encourage social contact and a sense of neighbourhood among members; common space facilitates shared activities like communal meals and other amenities like laundries, heating systems, guest rooms and transport.