WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN A TOWN COHOUSING PROJECT?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN A TOWN COHOUSING PROJECT?
TOWN is the UK’s leading developer of cohousing communities, with over 150 homes in progress across six new developments.
TOWN is the UK’s leading developer of cohousing communities, with over 150 homes in progress across six new developments.
What is Cohousing?
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Cohousing brings people with shared values together in communities they help conceive, design and manage. It enables residents to know their neighbours better and fosters more sustainable, community-oriented ways of living.
Private Homes
Residents own or rent their own self-contained home with their own outdoor space and usually are able to choose from a number of customisation options through the design process.
Shared spaces and amenities
Alongside private homes, communities offer shared spaces and facilities that encourage social interaction and support the life of the community, including communal gardens, guest rooms and dining space.
Collaborative design
Future residents play an active role in the development process, working closely with the design team to create a place tailored to their needs.
Community management
Once the development is complete, residents go on to collectively own and manage the shared spaces and facilities and take responsibility for furnishing and equipping them and bringing them to life.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the heart of cohousing communities, with homes designed to high levels of environmental performance, onsite renewable energy and an emphasis on making it easy to walk and cycle.
“Kind, loving neighbours who really want to connect with and support each other are the heart of cohousing. The children are out playing and people are chatting in backyards, and it feels like a dream come true.”
“Kind, loving neighbours who really want to connect with and support each other are the heart of cohousing. The children are out playing and people are chatting in backyards, and it feels like a dream come true.”
Interested?
Register your email to find out more about living in a TOWN cohousing community.
Current projects
Find out more about TOWN’s upcoming projects below
Still Green
Senior cohousing in Milton Keynes
Currently at construction stage, Still Green is going to provide 29 homes for people aged 50 and over, with shared spaces and facilities. It is part of TOWN’s wider Love Wolverton project with Milton Keynes City Council in the town of Wolverton.
Angel Yard
Intergenerational urban cohousing in Norwich
Angel Yard is a planned cohousing community in the St Augustine’s neighbourhood of central Norwich, offering 34 homes and shared amenities for a mix of ages. Currently awaiting planning permission, the development will offer a mix of apartments and houses, together with a common house and shared garden.
Millers’ Field
Carbon neutral community in Oundle
Drawing from cohousing principles, TOWN is working with a ‘building group’ of future residents to design a new community close to the heart of Oundle, a historic market town in Northamptonshire. Currently at planning stages, the development will provide around 14 carbon-neutral homes for families and older people.
Hartree
Urban cohousing in Cambridge
TOWN is exploring feasibility for a new community as part of the planned development of Hartree, North East Cambridge. This will be a higher-density, urban form of cohousing in a new quarter of the city.
Hertfordshire
Intergenerational suburban cohousing
TOWN is at the exploratory stages for a new development of around 40 homes in suburban Hertfordshire. An intergenerational cohousing community is envisaged, consisting of terraced houses and flats around a shared community garden.
CoHut
Intergenerational cohousing in Newcastle upon Tyne
TOWN is working with CoHuT and Newcastle City Council, to deliver Newcastle’s first purpose-built cohousing community on a woodland-fringed site in the West End of the city. The scheme is made up of 25 homes around a shared courtyard with a common house and other facilities.
Find out more
For general information and resources visit the UK Cohousing Network website.
Find out more about living in a TOWN cohousing project on the Marmalade Lane website
