Cohousing Cardiff picture
Forming Community
Postal Address
Not published - please use e-mail for written communications.
Telephone
02920 617723
Electronic Mail
info@cohousingcardiff.co.uk
World Wide Web
http://cohousingcardiff.co.uk
Number of over 18s
8
Number of under 18s
1
Legal Structure
industrial & provident society
Open to New Members (in principle)
Yes
Charge Visitors
No
Work in Lieu
No
WWOOF Host
No

Cohousing Cardiff

Our vision is to create, within the next 3 years, a housing-based community in Cardiff that will encourage social interaction and mutual support whilst reducing our carbon footprint. The development will include self-contained and accessible homes along with a shared co-house and other facilities for communal use (laundry, tool and bike shed; external space for food-growing and leisure; car pool etc).

Housing, designed to maximise planned and informal social contact, will be built in line with ecological sustainable principles. A mixed tenure development, it will include 15-25 private, shared and rented homes, in partnership with a Housing Association. Collaboration in the planning, design and running of our community will develop the trust and friendships between all who live there.

With a diverse group of residents, intergenerational and like-minded, we will develop an attractive and healthy place in which to live and thrive. We aim to achieve an acceptable balance between the number of units, communal and private outside space, the eco-specification and costs. Outward facing, the community will contribute to the local economy and culture of the neighbourhood.

http://www.facebook.com/CohousingCardiff

community does not share income community does not require capital from members community does not have broadband internet access community does not generates any of its own electricity community does not use solar energy community buildings not insulated to a high standard bicycles not used a lot no systems to encourage carsharing community is not particularly accessible by public transport community does not have systems which encourage sharing of utilities community does not have tool-sharing system community does not have organised systems for recycling community does not have an ecosewage system community is not involved in land management vegetables not grown by the community as a whole no communal animals no regular communal meals community does not have policy which restricts smoking wheelchair access is difficult

This group is not yet living together on site so some information may be aspirational rather than actual


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