Co-housing

Case study: Co-star - How Marmalade Lane is flying the flag for new ways of living

05.06.2020

Martin Read

Co-housing | Community Engagement | Design | East of England | Housing | Marmalade Lane | RTPI Awards

Cambridge’s Marmalade Lane co-housing development celebrated stellar success at the recent RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence. Could the Covid-19 crisis and the project's message about community engagement...
Building toward social inclusion

14.08.2019

Andrew Silverman

building design | Co-housing | communal living | Demographics & Population Growth | Housing | Policy & Politics | Social inclusion | UK

A policy focus on social inclusion will change the way that homes, workplaces and public buildings are designed, says Andrew Silverman
Overlapping uses will shape the future city

09.08.2018

Euan Durston

Co-housing | Demographics & Population Growth | England | Housing | Policy & Politics | PRS | rented accommodation | UK | urban living | urbanisation | Use classes

Research suggests more and more of us will spend our lives in rented accommodation. What needs to change to make renting more attractive, secure and practical? Euan Durston argues for a wholesale change of...
It’s time to overhaul the use classes order

03.07.2018

Jennifer Ross

Build to Rent | Co-housing | Co-living | England | Gig economy | Housing | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | PRS | UK | Use classes

The planning system is struggling to cope with modern ways of living, argues Jennifer Ross. What's needed are use classes that reflect how we choose to live in the 21st century