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After 11 years in the making, building work is finally set to start on a new community-led affordable housing project. Members of Bridport Cohousing have been ‘popping champagne corks’ celebrating the news that it’s all systems go for the development. With the support of Dorset Council, Homes England and their partner housing association, Bournemouth […] Our sales off-plan are now progressing well and we can tell you that 14 of the homes (numbered 35 – 48) will be for sale at 80% of market value (most of these have already been allocated to members) 26 will be for social rent through our partner housing association and 13 will be […] Monica King of Bridport Cohousing has won the award for ‘’Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop’’ at the National CLT Network awards ceremony held in Birmingham this month which champions people and projects from around the country that have achieved great things in the past year. She was one of eight nominees and picked because she has […] A round table lunch meeting at the London School of Economics On Friday 20th September, Monica, Lin, Judith and Charles met Jim Hudson and sat round a table at the London School Of Economics with 13 others**, who were all contributing to a discussion of the report that Jim has been commissioned to prepare for […] Although our Phase 2 Planning Application was passed last November, it could not be finalised until a couple of variations that cropped up in the last couple of months were dealt with officially. In spring this year, an anomaly was spotted in the Land Registry Plan of our land, which had, in the past been […] One of the final hurdles we have had to negotiate before we can start work on site took place on Thursday 15th November 2018 at the offices in Dorchester of The Dorset Councils Partnership (of which West Dorset District Council is now a partner), where members gathered to hear the outcome of the Phase 2 […] Latest Exciting News for Interested Enquirers!! We have at last begun the process of building the affordable neighbourhood of sustainable eco-homes that has been in the planning stages for so long. The first phase of off-plan houses and flats are being released in a few weeks time for leasehold purchase at 80% of open market […] We are so happy to have Bournemouth Churches as our new housing association partner. Getting development partners on board was the next challenge for Bridport Cohousing. We had the first phase of the land and access to it, the plans and the planning permission, huge support from the local authorities, friends, family […] We are delighted to say that our loan offer was over-subscribed and has enabled us to proceed with the purchase of Phase 1 land. The access agreement with the Dorset NHS Trust was finally approved by the Department of Health just days before our option to purchase the land ran out. This caused […] Our last big news was that we had paid the deposit for the purchase of the site of our cohousing scheme. With the site access agreed with the NHS Trust, we now need to fund the purchase of the land. To achieve this we have launched a Loan Offer Prospectus, inviting members, friends and supporters […] | ||||
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