SLIDE 1 Adam Broadway Managing Director
RIGHT TO BUILD EXPO NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
7 November 2017
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Examples from the neighbourhood: enabling group Custom and Self Build housing- the K1 Cohousing project, Cambridge.
SLIDE 3 This is the story of Cambridge’s First self commissioned Cohousing Development
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Phased Work
Phase One Test Concept
Two Three
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Phase One……key ingredients
- Active Marketing campaign
- Foundation Group set up
- Testing Concept include
viability
Cambridge City
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Phased Work
One
Phase Two Formalise
Three
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Phase Two……key ingredients
…Cambridge Cohousing Ltd
- Professional Support
- Creating the Client Brief….sets
- ut group’s requirements
- Consensus Decision making
- Business and social meetings
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The Client Brief……creating consensus
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Active Engagement……key ingredients
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Engagement Techniques
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Key Lessons from……for phases one and two
- Facilitation funding is essential
- Time….we started in 2010
- Planning = Very challenging
- High level of scrutiny…..Urban
Design
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Key Lessons from……for phases one and two
- Consistency of message
- Property and Construction
costs increases
- Maintaining member interest
- Structured governance
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Orchard Park, Kings Hedge Road, North Cambridge
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Orchard Park, Kings Hedge Road, North Cambridge
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Orchard Park, Kings Hedge Road, North Cambridge
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Orchard Park, Kings Hedge Road, North Cambridge
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Phased Work
One
Two Phase Three Detailed Design and Construction
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Developer Selection and Construction
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SLIDE 24 Volume, space and light.
High ceilings, tall windows, flow of space.
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SLIDE 26 A sense of place.
Proper streets, front doors and next-door neighbours.
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MARMALADE LANE.
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Benefits to landowner and local authority
- Creates a land sale/value
- Quality design…sets out the ambition
- Flexible house designs
- High Sustainability and Environmental Standards
- Mixed tenure = mixed communities
- BUT does need appropriate planning policy framework
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Summary Benefits of CoHousing Schemes
- CoHousing schemes bring creativity
and innovation
- Early Adopters……community
leaders
- Members bring Investment and
Ideas
Creates places by the people who want to live there
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