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Key Aspects of Cohousing
• Private homes and shared facilities
• Village-sized development
• Intentional neighbourhood design
• Neighbourhood managed by residents
Shared House and Facilities
Standard
Kitchen
Dining room
Living room
Large flexible space
Laundry
Desirable
Workshop
Office space
Store room / shop
Children/Teenagers room
Meeting Hall
Guest rooms
Trudeslund, Denmark
Layout
Courtyards & pedestrian
streets
Common house centrally
placed
Patios & clustered
houses
Woodland
Cars on edge
Social life
No lack of privacy!
Store & Laundry
Dinners & Childcare
Sailing boat!
Lawn mower
Initial impetus: “Social network to provide more support for the nuclear family”
33 families
(built 1981)
Why Cohousing?
• Feeling safe and connected
• Good neighbourly support
• Attractive shared space
• Onsite shared activities - planned and unplanned!
1. Social Sustainability
• Site design facilitates community spirit
• Optional meals in common house 3 or 4 times a week
• Residents empowered through self-management
• Informal support between residents
• Quality of Life
• Safe environment for all
2. Environmental Sustainability
•Reduced travel and car use
•Reduced energy use
•Reduced waste
Our group visit to Sussex – the biomass boiler
3. Benefits to wider community
• Good neighbours
• Provision of local facilities and activities
• Engagement in local life
• A route to enabling local people to stay in area
• Provision of affordable and sustainable housing
4. Affordable
• Low living costs
• Resource sharing
• Reduced travel
• Affordable housing under a variety of tenures
Cohousing in the UK
Up and running
• Springhill, Stroud
• The Community Project, Sussex
• The Threshold Centre, Dorset
(Some projects are new-build, others refurbishments)
Projects in the pipeline
•Lancaster – build in progress
•London Countryside Cohousing
•Bridport
•LILAC (Leeds – site now purchased)•Oxford Cohousing
•KATCH
Lancaster Cohousing
Autumn 2011
“We are now preparing the site for our Cohousing project with private homes, community facilities, workshop/offices and shared outdoor space”
Our team and network
• Partnership with Aster Housing Association
• Links with UK Cohousing Network
• Architect member, Jean Murphy
• Sustainability consultant
• Support from– West Berks Housing Officers– MP Richard Benyon
KATCH can provide a housing scheme with…
• A sustainable model
• An attractive and innovative neighbourhood
• A low-impact settlement
• Community cohesion
We are looking for a location where there is a wish for…
• A housing model that aims to work in partnership with the local community
• A development whose ethos is a known quantity
• A development that is innovative, sustainable, and builds community
And finally, some scenarios…
Cohousing can be:
•Stand-alone, or part of a larger housing scheme•New-build, or part use of existing buildings•Include a self-build option•Flexible and sensitive to surrounding area, as future residents part of design process•A good answer on an unusual site