The East End Trades Guild is an alliance of 400 small businesses, looking to take commercial arches into community ownership to ensure affordable space for businesses that contribute to the community.
Hackney
The Nevill Community
An exciting opportunity to move into an urban cohousing project in Stoke Newington, which is evolving to accommodate new members
The Nevill is a former pub which was converted into a 9-bedroom communal house in 1991. It hosts a small community of various ages and backgrounds, and has lots of communal spaces.
We’ve discussed how the group could evolve into a more sustainable structure, which would allow the restoration of the building, and to welcome more co-inhabitants. They aim to live in a close community sharing values of mutual care, sustainable living, respect and participation.
There is planning permission for the rebuilding of the roof, including an extension to create 5 independent flats and extensive shared spaces:
- two 1 bedroom flats on the ground floor aimed at older people, each including a private outdoor space,
- two 3 bedroom flats on the 1st and 2nd floors (including private outdoor space), and
- one 1 bedroom flat on the 3rd floor.
- on the ground floor, a communal entrance gives access to shared outdoor space including bike storage, and a flexible shared communal space including a kitchen.
- in the basement, some storage, a shared workshop and a potential shared guest room.
The building is owned freehold by the group, and the future cohousing structure has been evaluated by solicitors.
The group are currently looking for people interested in joining this new phase of community living, and purchasing two of the flats (a 3 bed and a 1 bed on the upper floors).
East Wick Sweetwater
An opportunity for a community led housing organisation to deliver 16 affordable homes within the Hackney Wick town centre boundary as part of the East Wick neighbourhood in Hackney.
East Wick + Sweetwater Projects (EW+S) is the development partner for the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), delivering over 1,850 new homes across 7 phases, on the western edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as part of the wider Legacy Community Scheme. This community led opportunity already has outline permission for 16 homes and two non-residential units, and forms part of the 34% of affordable homes on the site.
Visit the EW+S website for further information on the opportunity and the Expression of Interest form.
London Filipino Cohousing
A Filipino Community group aiming to build a mixed tenure, intergenerational cohousing community.
The London Filipino Co-Housing Project was initiated in early 2019 by four households from the Filipino community in London.
The project, which is supported by Bahay-Kubo Housing Association and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, is keen to address the issue of housing affordability which often faces low paid Filipino migrant workers working in the public sector, particularly those employed in health and social care.
How we’re helping:
We have helped to identify a site and have committed a small amount of funding for an initial feasibility study and will be supporting wider business planning.