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 much anxiety for members because we could not have …
News
Loan Offer
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 of Bridport Cohousing, and their friends, who …
Heart-warming news
Bridport Cohousing CLT has an option to purchase the western part of the site in which we plan to develop our cohousing neighbourhood; this is our phase 1. We also have an option to purchase the remaining part of the site, phase 2, when planning permission has been granted. Having been granted Planning Permission on phase 1, in order to …
Phase 2 planning application news
We are delighted to say that Bridport Cohousing’s Planning Application for phase 2 of the site was registered on 10th May 2017; this is for the 2+ acres that were not in the phase 1 planning application. The number of our application is WD/D/17/000534. Here is the web link to the …
New Logo for Bridport Cohousing
Bridport Cohousing’s original logo was a gift from Alan Heeks, who had adapted it from one he uses. It has served us well for 8 years. When Sam Goss, our architect appointed first to design our common house, heard we were looking for a new logo he offered us a design, based on the footprint of the Common House. We put it onto ‘Loomio,’ an …
BBC Radio Solent called us
Monica King writes...Steve Harris of BBC Radio Solent called on the BC phone and asked if Bridport Cohousing could do a live radio broadcast interview with him. The date was set for 15 Feb and, with no one else available to talk live on radio, I took it on. Steve and Simon had spent the morning with residents at the Threshold Centre, then …