Article in this week's Yorkshire Post:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/country-view/environment/dreamers_ma...

DREAMERS MAKE OWN VERSION OF GOOD LIFE COME TRUE

Estate agents are fond of describing the houses they’re trying to sell as “dream homes”.

However for two properties currently on the market in West Yorkshire, the description seems particularly apt – although thankfully, there is not an estate agent in sight.

Please link to property details and the community's website

Earth Heart Housing Co-operative is in rural Derbyshire 5 miles outside
Ashbourne.

We have 8 residential units, from 2 to 4 bedrooms each, with the
residents owning 999 year leases with the co-operative owning the
free-hold. We own 20 acres of rolling land, some organically grazed
pasture, some woodland, an orchard, all running down to the brook which
becomes the river that flows through Ashbourne.

We are 12 adults and 12 children, some of whom are away at University.

We have a communal wood-chip boiler, a reed-bed for sewage, and a large

FOR SALE: Large Devon House, 2.5 Acres, Shop , Workshop +more

How would you fancy buying either this whole package, or perhaps going in with some friends each for unit of accommodation within it, dividing the field, workshop and shop as you like? You can live in it as a shared project, without inconvenience of sharing bathrooms, kitchens and the like. Only 20 mins to the new Met Office down the M5. Or how about B&B?

My property is in the central Square of a Devon Village, and has the following features:

LILAC Cohousing Documentary from LILAC on Vimeo.

FOR SALE: THE BYRE
We currently have a 2 bed property for sale. Part of a terrace of cottages that were previously a cow byre (hence the name!) this home comprises an open plan kitchen and living/dining area with a bathroom and bedroom downstairs and another bedroom and small mezzanine area upstairs. The latter has previously been used as office space.

Love your neighbours…

Scandi-style open plan house, built 2004, with spacious, flexible internal accommodation. Ideal family home with lots of families on-site at this award-winning purpose-built cohousing project - great community atmosphere. High performance construction - band B (84 / 87) EPC rating. Electricity-generating photovoltaics, triple-glazing. All 34 homes have own kiitchens/private living spaces, plus 24/7 use of the 3-storey common house with shared meals and activities.

Close to centre (and station, with London mainline link) of this small, friendly Cotswold market town. Low car-use possible and encouraged.

£399,000

Tel 07976 661114 or visit www.27springhill.net

Please follow the link for a PDF with details: Springhill House for Sale

More people have committed to living in LILAC meaning that we now only have 8 dwellings left (2 houses and 6 flats). We are encouraging friends of the project who are seriously considering living in LILAC to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Three Bedroom Garden Flat for Sale at the Community Project
near Lewes, East Sussex £279,000
(www.cohousing.org.uk/community-project)
The flat is one of twenty one units set in 23 acres with vegetable plots, children’s play areas and horses.

The flat consists of:
Conservatory Living Room 22’ 5” x 10’ 3”
Open plan Kitchen / Living Area 15” 8” x 11’ 5”
Bedroom 1: 15’8” (into alcove) x 12’
Bedroom 2: 10’ x 9’3”
Bedroom 3: 12’ 5” x 6’ 7”
Bathroom with bath, toilet, sink, fitted mirror, mosaic shower
Utility area

Would you like to...
... own part of a Jacobean manor? ... bring up your children in fifteen acres of freedom and opportunity? ... eat home-grown organic vegetables and fresh eggs? ... be entertained by musical & dramatic events in the Great Hall & Tithe Barn? ... join with us to get great pleasure from an amazing and beautiful place?

And would you enjoy...
... gardening organically in a walled garden? ... caring for chickens, sheep and Gloucester Old Spot pigs? ... maintaining and preserving a Grade 1 listed historic building? ... rebuilding drystone walls, mowing lawns and weeding flower borders? ... running the Cotswold Beer Festival and other public events? ... taking your share of community activities and meetings?