Lifetime Community Project

Cohousing in Shipley - meeting 25 September

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:01:13 +0100

Lifetime Cohousing Community invites you to a meeting about developing cohousing in Shipley.

Information Afternoon, Saturday, 25 September 2010, 2-4:30, Shipley Library, Wellcroft

The event is free and includes refreshments. Please see advertising attachment.

Lifetime Community Project

Lifetime Cohousing – Partnership with Hanover Housing Association - in West Yorkshire

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:48:51 +0100

We are an established group of like-minded individuals intending to create an inclusive cohousing community in West Yorkshire in partnership with Hanover, a national housing provider.

Lifetime Community Project

Lifetime Community Project Brief

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:58:00 +0100

Attached is the the Project Brief for Lifetime Community Project. After a good deal of thought, we have come up with a list of aims and objectives.

Right click the link and select save as to download the brief.

Lifetime Community Project

Lifetime Community: great planning material

lifetime community — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:36:37 +0000

The Lifetime Community Project have been planning their group's development in detail, and have kindly allowed the cohousing network to make their planning documents available to others. They're in word document format - download via the links below.

Lifetime cohousing brief: includes aims, guiding principles, design plans through to overall expectations - which include 'We expect the built community to remain fit-for-purpose until the day we die!'

Explorer Questionnaire: a detailed question sheet for prospective members.

Finance and cost issues: a document exploring the factors that will determine the best financial model for a project.

Financing models: a table with a breakdown of advantages and disadvantages of different financing models, from housing association to self-financing.

Ownership models: pros, cons and questions about the best ownership model.

Lifetime Community Project

The Lifetime Community Project joins the network

lifetime community — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:08:24 +0000

Our vision

We plan to create a cohousing community in West Yorkshire, for people who want a co-operative and self-responsible life style for their later years. Our community will support members to grow older together, to "age in place" safely and enjoyably. The community will include 12 - 20 homes with shared facilities such as a large dining room, recreation areas, laundry, workshops and gardens. There will be a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability.

We want to engage local people's interest and involvement in the LifeTime project, so that we remain part of the wider community. We will be a model of a supportive and accessible age-in-place community, encouraging other older people to consider such projects for themselves. We shall raise the profile of this kind of housing project with policy makers and service providers

What is cohousing?

Cohousing is a type of collaborative living that was first developed in Denmark during the 1970's. It combines the benefits of private space with the advantages of shared resources. Individual homes are clustered around a community building where members regularly socialise. The residents organise and participate in the planning and design process, and manage daily community business. Every member owns at least some share of the community's property

What we are planning to build

The LifeTime Community Project will provide individual homes for its members and a central shared space to meet, eat and enjoy life together. Our preference is to build from scratch but we will also consider renovating an existing building.

Each home will, as far as possible, reflect what its resident wants and can afford. There will be a range of affordable tenures - full ownership, part ownership, and homes for rent. The properties must be energy efficient and have low environmental impact.

When the need arises, we intend to buy in shared services such as cleaning, personal care and gardening.