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.

We have held several further meetings and now have created a CIC to provide an organisational framework as we start discussions with our town and district councils and planners, and with developers, land owners and estate agents. We plan further meetings to get to know each other better and increase our knowledge about setting up co housing communities and welcome enquiries from all those outside of our community who might be interested in coming to help us create co housing in Frome – which we think is a very nice place to do it – and there are lots of like minded souls here already.

For further information contact Tim Cutting: t...@cutting-energy.co.uk (click on 3 blue dots for full email.)

Rr look at our section on the forum pages of Sustainable Frome at our website, www.sustainablefrome.org.uk

LILAC have appointed White Design as our architects to design our neighbourhood. They have quickly started an exciting process of workshops with the members and provisional members.

Read about their project on their page. Land is bought in Stoke Newington and project is barrelling along. Although currently closed to new members, they're keen to talk to others.

... A great story to help get a feeligg of what cohousing is all about. The full Guardian story is here.

Thank you for your booking!

You'll be emailed a receipt by paypal: please print this out and bring it with you. We will have a full name list, but in the event of a problem, we will need proof of purchase.

The conference and the Workshop will be held at Friends House, Euston Road - click here for full venue details.

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