*It's happening!* Lancaster Cohousing has bought the Halton Gorge site.
It's a beautiful site with a south facing slope down to the River Lune a perfect spot to create our exciting eco cohousing development. The project will comprise private homes, community facilities, workshop/office space and shared outdoor space. It will be built on ecological values in partnership with our architects, Ecoarc. Over the next few months the group will be working with the architects to design the site and homes before building work can commence. We hope to move in April 2012.
The site is ideal for accessing the amenities (school, shops, pubs etc) of Halton Village and is just 3 miles from Lancaster City Centre which can be easily accessed by a riverside cycle path or bus.
The project is of course great for families; they can benefit from shared childcare, lots of car free space for play and lots of playmates! At the moment (08/09) we have 5 families fully signed up and others are hoping to.
Joining
We are welcoming new members; we are not sure how long it will take to fill up now we have a site but places could go very fast.
The advantages of joining ASAP are:
- Involvement in all of the design process; this includes site and home design
- A reduction on the price of your home due to the higher burden of risk at this stage
- Less competition for places
- Plot choice (plots are chosen in order of joining)
Please see our website for further details including events, photos of the site, how to join (and how many households have joined (16 at 08/09)), the current home price reduction, and much more…….
If you have questions email i...@lancastercohousing.org.uk (click on the three dots to the left of the @ for full email) or phone one of the contacts given on the website.
Lancaster Eco-housing Gets Go-Ahead
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 15:17 — adminMembers of local community group Lancaster Cohousing are celebrating after Lancaster City Council’s planning committee approved their plans to redevelop a 2.5 hectare derelict site by the River Lune at Halton, near Lancaster, to provide 40 new private homes, shared indoor and outdoor space and managed business space. The cohousing group is a mix of individuals, couples and families of all ages whose aim is to build eco-homes of a cutting edge sustainable design and create a friendly, supportive neighbourhood.
Lancaster update: working on design, open to new members
Mon, 02/01/2010 - 09:15 — adminIt’s a busy and exciting time for us...
The whole group are working with our architects (Ecoarc) to design our eco cohousing project. We have finalised our home plans and are close to finalising the site plan which includes a cohouse, 28-31 homes, a pedestrian walkway and lots of green space!
We are still welcoming new members (there are 7-10 homes left depending on the final number). We will be accepting the next group of new members in March; the deadline for these applications is 28 February.
Managed Workspace
We are actively encouraging households to join the project who are interested in making use of the managed workspace on site (offices, studios, workshops). We are also interested to hear from anyone outside the cohousing project who might be interested in this space so please spread the word. The contact for this is halt...@lancastercohousing.org.uk. (Click on 3 blue dots to get the full email.)
Events
If you would like to meet us or find out more please come to one of our events -
- 4th Sunday each month: Brunch
- 11am , Whale Tail Café, Lancaster
- Sunday Feb 7th Lunch / Integration afternoon
- 1pm Gregson, Lancaster. Lunch (all welcome)
- 2pm Gregson, Integration afternoon (Prospective members only)
- Saturday Feb 13th Meal / drinks
- 6pm Gregson – meet in the bar
- Wednesday Feb 17th Planning Application Preview
- 6.30-8pm Halton Youth and Community Centre
There’s lots more information on our website.
Cheers, Kathy (kat...@lancastercohousing.org.uk - click on 3 blue dots to get full email.)
Lancaster Cohousing Autumn 2009
Thu, 11/19/2009 - 18:49 — adminIt's happening.
We've bought land alongside the River Lune at Halton and pre-sold over half the houses. There will be a zero-carbon cohousing community as well as workshop/office space in converted buildings. You can still be part of it!
Lancaster Cohousing is getting busy now we have a site!
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 15:31 — adminWe’ve had lots of visitors to our beautiful site and a few new joiners. We had our first design workshop with the architects recently and they are now working on initial drafts of site plans. There are lots of surveys going on and professionals being hired. We also spent a wonderful sunny evening at the site celebrating the project!
Lancaster cohousing: we've acquired land!
Sat, 08/15/2009 - 22:44 — adminLancaster Group Plans to Create a Gold Standard Eco-Cohousing Community
Lancaster Cohousing has just bought a riverside plot on which they plan to create a green cohousing development. It is hoped it will act as a catalyst and inspiration for significant improvements in the environmental impact of new housing developments.
