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community led housing projects in London

Marmalade Lane

Developer enabled cohousing in Cambridge with 42 households.

Cannock Mill

self-build cohousing community in Colchester committed to eco-living

Naked House OMMX interior
Naked House

Delivering 22 units of resale price capped homes in Enfield, built to the bare minimum allowing residents to adapt them over time.

Older Womens Cohousing, Barnet
Older Women’s
Co-Housing

A group of women over fifty who formed the first senior cohousing community in the UK. A housing association forward funded the scheme.

St Andrews Place

Self-builders with ambitions to create a small cohousing scheme.

Zahra Housing Co-op

A fully mutual co-op formed of five inter-generational households currently renting unsuitable private accommodation

Riverlink Housing Co-op
Tally Ho Housing Co-op
Gida Housing Co-op

Gida aims to empower under-represented communities, by giving them collective control over their own homes.

Woodside Housing Co-op
Headway Self Build

10 affordable rented houses where residents collectively finished joinery, fixtures and fittings, once the structural shell was built by Circle.

Ladybur Housing Co-op
Cohousing Harrow

A group of families and individuals looking to build a supportive, mixed tenure cohousing community in Harrow.

The Drive Expansion

An intentional community and fully mutual housing co-op offering a sustainable, collectively-run way of life, looking to expand

London Older Lesbian Cohousing

A group of older lesbians creating mixed tenure cohousing as an alternative to retirement homes.

StART

StART want to see permanently affordable homes, promoting health, wellbeing and a green neighbourhood at St Ann’s.

Homes in Mind

Homes in Mind aims to provide transitional housing for people with mental health issues.

Homesdale (Woodford Baptist)
Sycamore Housing

A group living in the private rented sector and working towards a long-term housing solution.

Forest CLT

A group of local families and individuals working to create sustainable and affordable housing and community space.

Waverley (Eighth) Co-op Housing Association
Stroud Green Housing Co-op
Fountain Self Build Group

A group of families interested in building sustainable and genuine affordable rented homes.

New Swift Housing Co-op
Finsbury Park Housing Co-op
North Camden Housing Co-op
Islington Community Housing Co-op
Alamo Housing Co-op
Quadrant Brownswood Tenants Co-op
Fleet Cohousing

A group of mostly of older households looking to downsize, focused on Dartmouth Park.

Watermans Housing Co-op
Everbrook Housing Co-op
Hackney Housing Co-op
Clissold Housing Co-op
Clements Road

Redbridge Citizens campaigned for CLT homes in their area. New homes will be taken on by London CLT.

The Nevill Community

A cohousing group transforming the shared house they own, so more people can move in.

The Nevill Community

A cohousing group transforming the shared house they own, so more people can move in.

Heathview Tenants’ Co-op
Camden Community Makers

An initiative looking to ensure genuinely affordable housing and facilities in Kentish Town.

Copper Lane Cohousing

A group of six mixed households forming London's first cohousing project.

Lindsey Housing Co-op
Holloway Cohousing

A cohousing community forming part of the Holloway Women’s Prison redevelopment.

Camden Teachers Tenants Co-op
Abeona Housing Co-op

Co-op founded in 1975 set up during the squatting and short life housing movements of the seventies. Registered in 1983 to provide permanent co-operative housing and now has 48 members.

Leytonstone Housing Co-op
Harecourt Community Housing Association
Willesden Green Housing Co-op
NW3 CLT
NW3 CLT

A group of local residents looking to provide permanently affordable key worker housing in Hampstead.

South Mildmay Tenants Co-op
Tenants Association of North Camden
Woodgrange Park Village Co-op
Unit Eleven Housing Co-op
Belpark (One) Housing Co-op
Mace Housing Co-op

A fully mutual co-operative, who provide housing for single homeless people, often in unused properties.

London Filipino Cohousing

A Filipino Community group aiming to build a mixed tenure, intergenerational cohousing community.

Fairhazel Co-operative
East Wick Sweetwater

An opportunity to take on 16 CLH homes in the new East Wick neighbourhood.

South Camden Housing Co-op
West Hampstead Housing Co-op
Cohousing London East

A small group aiming to build a mixed-tenure, inter-generational, eco-community in NE London.

South Hampstead Housing Co-op
Camley Street Sustainability Zone

A community-led project to develop affordable housing and genuine industrial space with local people.

Newham Community Housing
Longlife Housing Co-op
Pan African Refugee Housing Co-op
Camden Peoples’ Housing Co-op
Richmond Avenue Housing Co-op
Trades Guild CLT

An alliance of small businesses taking ownership of arches to ensure affordability.

Brent Community Housing
Home from Home
Housing Association

Arneway Housing Co-op
Brent CLT

Affordable housing by the community for the community

Squeezed London

Tower Hamlets residents have come together to set up an affordable self-build project together.

Cyron Housing
Co-operative

Kilburn Housing Co-op
Grand Union Housing Co-op
Arcadia Cohousing

A group of people who know each other from church, looking to create affordable, inter-generational cohousing.

Scottish Towers Co-op
Surge Co-op

Surge Co-op aims to create sustainable and affordable moorings for larger boats in underused historic wharves.

Otherwise Living

Otherwise Living is working to create, nurture and manage an unique alternative development in West London

The Great Get Together
Bonny Downs Cohousing

A local charity redeveloping an old church hall into an intentional community addressing homelessness.

Wilfrid East London Housing Co-op
Beam River CLT

An East London Community Land Trust aiming to empower disadvantaged members of the African community.

TUSH – Tower Hamlets Users of Short-life Housing
Phoenix Community Housing Co-op
St Clements,
London CLT

Residents have moved into London’s first 23 Community Land Trust homes, offering genuine affordability in perpetuity.

Chippenham Housing Co-op
Walterton & Elgin Community Homes

WECH is a resident controlled HA and CLT building 43 new affordable homes.

Bow Creek Moorings

A group of boaters setting up co-operative moorings for a secure and sustainable community.

Westminster Housing Co-op

Short-life housing coop who take on property in any state of disrepair to house tenants in need

Dennis Central London Housing Co-op
Seymour Housing Co-op
Seagull Housing Co-op
West Eleven Housing Co-op
Portobello Housing Co-operative
Winsor Housing Co-op
Monmouth Road Housing Co-op
Belgrave Street Housing Co-op
The Mile End Housing Co-op
Glenkerry Co-op Housing Association
Seven Dials Housing Co-op
Platform Homes Self-Build

Residents working together to create self-build homes on tight infill sites

Notting Dale Housing Co-op
E16 CLT

Set up to deliver a community regeneration plan, significantly increasing homes in co-production with the council.

Cable Street

London CLT secured the site through the GLA's Small Sites programme, to deliver affordable homes linked to local incomes.

Birchfield House Co-op
Ealing Housing Co-op
Coin Street Iroko Housing Co-op
Coin Street

Coin Street Community Builders has developed 220 affordable homes, run by 4 fully mutual co-ops.

Water Tower Housing Co-op
Dawley Housing
Co-operative

Miller Walk Housing Co-op
Edward Henry House Co-op
Britannia Village Hall

A local charity looking to redevelop an ageing community centre to provide affordable housing and community space.

New Cut Housing Co‑op Expansion

An existing Co-op looking to develop new homes for older members on their car park area.

The Hatch Row Housing Co-op
Brandrams Housing Co-op
Swan Lane Housing Co-op
La Gaitana Housing Co-op
Marklake Court - photo Ray Hardinge
Marklake Court

The Leathermarket CBS, set up by residents, led the development of 27 homes for social rent, on their estate.

Pearman Street Co-operative
Ginger Giraffe Collective

A cohousing project for both those who have health and social care needs and those who can provide this care.

Wellington Mills Housing Co-op
Arundel Buildings Housing Co-op
Brighton Buildings Housing Co-op
Argyll and Glyn Co-op
W14 Housing Co-op
United St Saviours

We are facilitating workshops to help residents of almshouses live well together.

Watmos Community Homes

A tenant run housing organisation considering partial redevelopment on the Ethelred estate.

Felixstowe Road

Council owned site in Abbey Wood, being developed by Greenwich Citizens Housing and London CLT.

Pimlico Village Housing Co-op
West Ken Gibbs Green Community Homes

Residents aim to take ownership of their estates to ensure the homes are not sold off.

Green Dragon Lane Housing Co-op
Tonic

Tonic aims to create vibrant and inclusive urban LGBT+ affirmative retirement communities.

Vine Housing Co-op
Hourglass Housing Co-op
May Day Housing Co-op
Quaggy MHOS
Quaggy MHOS

A Mutual Home Ownership Society where some rent goes towards building up equity, which members may take a share of when they leave.

St. George’s Church Housing Co-op
Sanford Housing Co‑op Expansion

Sanford are looking to expand housing and provide community facilities on their own land.

Gloucester Grove Tenants Management Organisation
Gloucester Grove TMO

A Tenant Management Organisation looking at community-led housing to gain support for new homes to alleviate overcrowding.

Riverdale Housing Co-op
Lammerton Housing Co-op
Ham Wharf Mooring Co-op
West London Shared-House Purchase

A small group of people looking to club together to buy and share a house.

Holland Town Tenant Management Co-op
Ekarro Housing Co-op
Juniper Housing Co-op
Nettleton Road Housing Co-op
CASH

Community Assets for Society and Housing is a CLT founded by members of housing co-ops, bringing their experience together.

Rising Sun Housing Co-op

A co-operative formed by tenants in a former pub building, which they aim to purchase together.

Hollymeadow Housing
Co-operative

Dennetts Housing Co-op
Hazel Housing Co-op
Old Isleworth Housing Co-op
Normandy Housing Co-op
Colyers Housing Co-op
Photograph by Peter Brooker  Brockley Tenants Co-operative

An established housing co-operative seeking to expand and adapt to the changing needs of their residents.

Photograph by Peter Brooker 
Brockley Tenants Co-operative

An established housing co-operative seeking to expand and adapt to the changing needs of their residents.

Brockley Tenants Co-op
Habitat Close
Nimbus Housing Co-op
Flame Housing Co-op
Susan Road

Council owned sites in Kidbrooke, being taken forward by Greenwich Citizens Housing and London CLT.

Greenstreet Hill
Greenstreet Hill

A self-build housing co-operative built in timber frame, around a communal garden, in the early 1990s.

Wellington Housing Co-op
Scylla Road

London CLT are looking to provide affordable and welcoming housing for Southwark residents.

Cross Lances
Housing Co-op

Middlesex & Wellington Co-ops

Two housing co-operatives are working together to create a phased programme to create more modern affordable homes. 

Craymill Housing
Co-operative

Cetra Housing Co-op
Whitworth Housing Co-op
Shearwood Housing Co-op
Bonham & Strathleven Tenants Co-op
Perryviews Housing Co-op
On the Rise, Hafer Road

A group of neighbours with a collective self-build and possibly cohousing project

Battersea Tenants Co-op
Church Grove, RUSS

A Community Land Trust creating sustainable and affordable neighbourhoods. This 36 unit scheme allows local people to self-build.

Convent Co-operative
Brixton Housing Co-op
Park Hill Housing Co-op
Lewisham Family Co-op
Lambeth Self Help

Lambeth Self Help is a fully mutual housing co-operative, representing the interests of members since the 1970s. 

Earlsfield CLT

People involved in local community organisations coming together to form a CLT in Earlsfield.

Southward Housing Co-op
Richmond Co-op Housing Association
Endlesham Hall

An independent community church building homes for young key-workers to rent above a new multi-use hall.

New Venture Housing Co-op
Christchurch Road

London CLT have secured the site through the GLA's Small Sites programme, to deliver affordable homes linked to local incomes.

Anerley Housing Co-op
Phoenix Place Coproduction

Community-led decision-making between residents and their HA landlord, helping deliver green space improvements.

Phoenix Place Coproduction

Community-led decision-making between residents and their HA landlord, helping deliver green space improvements.

Tooting Bec Housing Co-op
Metra Housing Co-op
Sydenham Housing Co-op
Sun Housing Co-op

An intentional community with a vision for a communal living and working environment, governed by the occupants.

Citizens House, London CLT

11 recently completed homes, genuinely affordable in perpetuity, built on a disused garage site.

Nubia Way path along 2 storey timber homes
Nubia Way

A self-build co-operative who built 13 sustainable timber frame homes in the 1990s.

Hatherley Housing Co-op
Phoenix Community Housing
Hazelhurst Court

60 one and two-bed extra care homes for affordable rent next to their existing properties for older people.

Imani Housing Co-op
Skylight Housing Co-op
Townshend Close Housing Co-op
Springbank Court

Resident-led housing organisation Phoenix Community Homes, have built 8 new homes in Ravensboure.

Looking East along The Lawns
Crystal Palace CLT

Crystal Palace Transition Town Community came together to form a CLT and build affordable housing and community gardens.

Bromley CLT

Emerging Community Land Trust in Bromley

Heads2Gether

H2G aim to provide mutually supportive and secure affordable interim housing for single parents on low incomes.

Plum Tree Housing Co-op
Plum Tree Co-op

A group of mis-treated property guardians aiming to take meanwhile control of their accommodation.

Laughton Lodge
Laughton Lodge

a rural cohousing community on a 25-acre old hospital site in East Sussex.

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Church Grove, RUSS

A Community Land Trust creating sustainable and affordable neighbourhoods. This 36 unit scheme allows local people to self-build.

Citizens House, London CLT

11 recently completed homes, genuinely affordable in perpetuity, built on a disused garage site.

Copper Lane Cohousing

A group of six mixed households forming London's first cohousing project.

Phoenix Community Housing
Hazelhurst Court

60 one and two-bed extra care homes for affordable rent next to their existing properties for older people.

Marklake Court - photo Ray Hardinge
Marklake Court

The Leathermarket CBS, set up by residents, led the development of 27 homes for social rent, on their estate.

Naked House OMMX interior
Naked House

Delivering 22 units of resale price capped homes in Enfield, built to the bare minimum allowing residents to adapt them over time.

Older Womens Cohousing, Barnet
Older Women’s
Co-Housing

A group of women over fifty who formed the first senior cohousing community in the UK. A housing association forward funded the scheme.

St Clements,
London CLT

Residents have moved into London’s first 23 Community Land Trust homes, offering genuine affordability in perpetuity.

 

supported projects

The Great Get Together
Bonny Downs Cohousing

A local charity redeveloping an old church hall into an intentional community addressing homelessness.

Bow Creek Moorings

A group of boaters setting up co-operative moorings for a secure and sustainable community.

Brent CLT

Affordable housing by the community for the community

Britannia Village Hall

A local charity looking to redevelop an ageing community centre to provide affordable housing and community space.

Cable Street

London CLT secured the site through the GLA's Small Sites programme, to deliver affordable homes linked to local incomes.

Christchurch Road

London CLT have secured the site through the GLA's Small Sites programme, to deliver affordable homes linked to local incomes.

Clements Road

Redbridge Citizens campaigned for CLT homes in their area. New homes will be taken on by London CLT.

Cohousing Harrow

A group of families and individuals looking to build a supportive, mixed tenure cohousing community in Harrow.

Looking East along The Lawns
Crystal Palace CLT

Crystal Palace Transition Town Community came together to form a CLT and build affordable housing and community gardens.

E16 CLT

Set up to deliver a community regeneration plan, significantly increasing homes in co-production with the council.

Earlsfield CLT

People involved in local community organisations coming together to form a CLT in Earlsfield.

East Wick Sweetwater

An opportunity to take on 16 CLH homes in the new East Wick neighbourhood.

Endlesham Hall

An independent community church building homes for young key-workers to rent above a new multi-use hall.

Felixstowe Road

Council owned site in Abbey Wood, being developed by Greenwich Citizens Housing and London CLT.

Forest CLT

A group of local families and individuals working to create sustainable and affordable housing and community space.

Gida Housing Co-op

Gida aims to empower under-represented communities, by giving them collective control over their own homes.

Gloucester Grove Tenants Management Organisation
Gloucester Grove TMO

A Tenant Management Organisation looking at community-led housing to gain support for new homes to alleviate overcrowding.

Heads2Gether

H2G aim to provide mutually supportive and secure affordable interim housing for single parents on low incomes.

Homes in Mind

Homes in Mind aims to provide transitional housing for people with mental health issues.

Lambeth Self Help

Lambeth Self Help is a fully mutual housing co-operative, representing the interests of members since the 1970s. 

London Older Lesbian Cohousing

A group of older lesbians creating mixed tenure cohousing as an alternative to retirement homes.

Middlesex & Wellington Co-ops

Two housing co-operatives are working together to create a phased programme to create more modern affordable homes. 

NW3 CLT
NW3 CLT

A group of local residents looking to provide permanently affordable key worker housing in Hampstead.

Phoenix Place Coproduction

Community-led decision-making between residents and their HA landlord, helping deliver green space improvements.

Platform Homes Self-Build

Residents working together to create self-build homes on tight infill sites

Plum Tree Housing Co-op
Plum Tree Co-op

A group of mis-treated property guardians aiming to take meanwhile control of their accommodation.

Rising Sun Housing Co-op

A co-operative formed by tenants in a former pub building, which they aim to purchase together.

Rode Housing Co-op

A small group set up as a fully mutual cooperative aiming to provide housing for themselves and others. 

Scylla Road

London CLT are looking to provide affordable and welcoming housing for Southwark residents.

Squeezed London

Tower Hamlets residents have come together to set up an affordable self-build project together.

St Andrews Place

Self-builders with ambitions to create a small cohousing scheme.

Surge Co-op

Surge Co-op aims to create sustainable and affordable moorings for larger boats in underused historic wharves.

Susan Road

Council owned sites in Kidbrooke, being taken forward by Greenwich Citizens Housing and London CLT.

Sycamore Housing

A group living in the private rented sector and working towards a long-term housing solution.

The Nevill Community

A cohousing group transforming the shared house they own, so more people can move in.

Tonic

Tonic aims to create vibrant and inclusive urban LGBT+ affirmative retirement communities.

Trades Guild CLT

An alliance of small businesses taking ownership of arches to ensure affordability.

United St Saviours

We are facilitating workshops to help residents of almshouses live well together.

Watmos Community Homes

A tenant run housing organisation considering partial redevelopment on the Ethelred estate.

Zahra Housing Co-op

A fully mutual co-op formed of five inter-generational households currently renting unsuitable private accommodation


Arcadia Cohousing

A group of people who know each other from church, looking to create affordable, inter-generational cohousing.

Beam River CLT

An East London Community Land Trust aiming to empower disadvantaged members of the African community.

Photograph by Peter Brooker 
Brockley Tenants Co-operative

An established housing co-operative seeking to expand and adapt to the changing needs of their residents.

Bromley CLT

Emerging Community Land Trust in Bromley

Camden Community Makers

An initiative looking to ensure genuinely affordable housing and facilities in Kentish Town.

Camley Street Sustainability Zone

A community-led project to develop affordable housing and genuine industrial space with local people.

CASH

Community Assets for Society and Housing is a CLT founded by members of housing co-ops, bringing their experience together.

Cohousing London East

A small group aiming to build a mixed-tenure, inter-generational, eco-community in NE London.

First Brick Housing

A democratically-run, member-owned organisation aiming to build housing and community spaces for LGBTQ+ people.

Fleet Cohousing

A group of mostly of older households looking to downsize, focused on Dartmouth Park.

Fountain Self Build Group

A group of families interested in building sustainable and genuine affordable rented homes.

Ginger Giraffe Collective

A cohousing project for both those who have health and social care needs and those who can provide this care.

Holloway Cohousing

A cohousing community forming part of the Holloway Women’s Prison redevelopment.

London Filipino Cohousing

A Filipino Community group aiming to build a mixed tenure, intergenerational cohousing community.

New Cut Housing Co‑op Expansion

An existing Co-op looking to develop new homes for older members on their car park area.

Otherwise Living

Otherwise Living is working to create, nurture and manage an unique alternative development in West London

Sanford Housing Co‑op Expansion

Sanford are looking to expand housing and provide community facilities on their own land.

Springbank Court

Resident-led housing organisation Phoenix Community Homes, have built 8 new homes in Ravensboure.

StART

StART want to see permanently affordable homes, promoting health, wellbeing and a green neighbourhood at St Ann’s.

Sun Housing Co-op

An intentional community with a vision for a communal living and working environment, governed by the occupants.

The Drive Expansion

An intentional community and fully mutual housing co-op offering a sustainable, collectively-run way of life, looking to expand

West Ken Gibbs Green Community Homes

Residents aim to take ownership of their estates to ensure the homes are not sold off.

West London Shared-House Purchase

A small group of people looking to club together to buy and share a house.

 

other case studies

Cannock Mill

self-build cohousing community in Colchester committed to eco-living

Coin Street Iroko Housing Co-op
Coin Street

Coin Street Community Builders has developed 220 affordable homes, run by 4 fully mutual co-ops.

Greenstreet Hill
Greenstreet Hill

A self-build housing co-operative built in timber frame, around a communal garden, in the early 1990s.

Headway Self Build

10 affordable rented houses where residents collectively finished joinery, fixtures and fittings, once the structural shell was built by Circle.

Laughton Lodge
Laughton Lodge

a rural cohousing community on a 25-acre old hospital site in East Sussex.

Mace Housing Co-op

A fully mutual co-operative, who provide housing for single homeless people, often in unused properties.

Marmalade Lane

Developer enabled cohousing in Cambridge with 42 households.

Nubia Way path along 2 storey timber homes
Nubia Way

A self-build co-operative who built 13 sustainable timber frame homes in the 1990s.

On the Rise, Hafer Road

A group of neighbours with a collective self-build and possibly cohousing project

Quaggy MHOS
Quaggy MHOS

A Mutual Home Ownership Society where some rent goes towards building up equity, which members may take a share of when they leave.

Walterton & Elgin Community Homes

WECH is a resident controlled HA and CLT building 43 new affordable homes.

 
There are a number of other emerging projects we have not yet listed.
Please get in touch if you would like to be listed.

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