The first (few hundred) blocks

Quick update on progress on site over the last week or so...

Blockwork has started on Terrace A, although we are now waiting for the lintels which will bridge over the service entries and the engineering bricks to arrive on site.  Finished floor levels will be three courses of engineering bricks above the top of the blockwork as seen here.

The common garden area to terrace A is small but has a lovely outlook

See the extra wide cavity, which for those of you in the know, will give a wall U-value of between 0.10 and 0.12

The Common House blockwork is ready to go. Note that the front of building 2 has now been pulled down to make way for the Children's room, toilets, laundry and guest rooms.  The floor will be lowered to provide level access

Meanwhile at terrace D the building platform is being levelled.  A report on the safety of the rock face to the right is pending - we plan to leave it looking as natural as possible

And at Heron Bank, the pile of rubble just gets bigger and bigger.










Jon

http://www.lancastercohousing.org.uk/

Membership spring forward!

We had another busy social Sunday this month, with our regular monthly brunch at the Whale Tail in the city centre followed by a tour of our Halton site and an integration meeting at the Centre @ Halton for people who want to find out more about what is involved in cohousing, how we make decisions etc. It was great to talk to both new and regular visitors to Lancaster, and also to see some Halton residents, who came along following our presence at the Halton Eco Fair on Saturday 26. 

We've reached a point where we only have a few houses left in the project (see details of these here) -- which is exciting, but at the same it's almost disappointing, as there seem to be so many lovely people just finding out about the project for the first time who might miss out. But maybe some of them will be tempted by Heron Bank instead -- two are reserved already, but we still have four left -- so there's still time to be our new neighbours! 

Lucy

www.lancastercohousing.org.uk

Terrace G becomes Heron Bank!

We've started marketing the terrace of houses that will be located just outside the project and built to the same eco-standards as our main co-housing development.

The houses all have three bedrooms, and will also have private gardens and car parking spaces. There are six terraces in the main development, A-F, so originally we called the neighbour houses 'Terrace G' - not very appealing, or indeed meaningful to anyone who doesn't know about the other terraces! So we had a bit of a brainstorm about names, and then did a sticky dots vote on the resulting ideas at our General Meeting last weekend.

The most popular name was Heron Bank. It's not just marketing hype, there really are herons! Luke took the photo above just up river from the site.

If you want to know more about the Heron Bank houses, please see the details on our website, or email info@lancastercohousing.org.uk.

jo

www.lancastercohousing.org.uk