Some Other Community Housing Examples

BedZED
Low impact - A very high density (75 per hectare), very urban site residential and work spaces are heated and supplied with electrical power without the use of fossil-fuels; waste water is treated on site using undercover living machines.

Hedgehog Housing Cooperative
Housing Cooperative - all residents are tenants of South London Family Housing Association and nomination rights remain with the local authority (Brighton Borough Council) but tenancies are dependent on successful application for membership of the cooperative, ie. this is an intentional community for low income residents.
Energy-efficient - timber-framed houses have wooden I-beams to support turfed, sloping roof sections and very high levels of WarmCell insulation (recycled newspaper)

Hockerton Housing Project
Energy-efficient - An example of an earth sheltered development that derives all its heating from passive-solar. The suns rays heat the houses during the daytime and in summer and the heat is released at night time and winter from the earth berm on the north facing side of the terrace.

Homes for Change
Resident engagement - High density deck access social housing cooperative. Tenant led from inception, including questions of design. Partnership with Guinness Trust HA.
Mixed use - Work for Change workshop, office, depot and retail units, and theatre space on the same site as the flats, very successfully and popularly run by a cooperative of commercial tenants.

Kingsdown Society
Partnership - Used very effective networking, and a robust financial model.

The Community Project (Laughton)
Co-Housing - Britains first, and most developed, Co-Housing community. 17 homes created through renovation and 4 through new build. Very successful community building and conflict resolution strategies; very effective, and increasing use of the common house.

Stroud Co-Housing
Co-Housing - the first new build Co-Housing development in the UK
Low impact - the example of high-quality construction techniques and materials (timber-framed, high levels of insulation, triple-glazing, air-tight construction)incorporation of a sustainable urban drainage system, on a very difficult, steeply sloping site.
Mixed tenure-the example of cooperation between Stroud District Council and the Co-Housing community