We are a mutually supportive group, sharing values and aims. We are building our own low energy and environmentally friendly homes with a shared ‘common house’, land and facilities at Cannock Mill, Colchester. We aim to maintain contact with family and friends in London while integrating with, and contributing to, the community in which we build our homes. Our website provides information on us, o
ur project and on cohousing generally. We hope you will enjoy finding out about us, how we work together and our vision. If you share our values and our aims, perhaps you would like to join us? Cohousing is just taking off in the UK, but it’s not new to other parts of Europe – Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Holland, Sweden… or in the USA. In cohousing, we know our neighbours and look out for each other; we choose as much privacy or as much socialising as we want; we decide collectively what shared facilities we want to build — often a common house where we can cook and eat together, say twice a week, where there could also be shared guest rooms, a workshop, library, laundry, space for music… dancing… a gym… the possibilities are endless. We can share: gardening, cars, skills, carers in old age — with common facilities and functions jointly owned and run by us. As a cohousing group we do not have any central religious or social agenda, we are just individuals who see the benefits of an intentional community. We have however agreed that we all aim for maximum eco-efficiency: low energy homes, water efficiency, solar power generation, growing fruit and veg; in other words ‘living lightly’.
