UK Cohousing Network website:
Which includes the Lancaster Cohousing Group Page:
http://www.cohousing.org.uk/Lancaster
Lancaster Cohousing Project is also an example of shared mobility (members who own private cars are invited to contribute to a carpooling system) and shared energy (electricity micro-grid). It is currently the largest passive housing project in the UK. http://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/projects/detail/?cId=35#.Vh1WmRNViko
Cohousing in a nutshell (from the website):
Cohousing communities are intentional communities. They are created and run by their residents. Each household has a self-contained, personal and private home but residents come together to manage their community, share activities, eat together. Cohousing is a way of combating the alienation and isolation many experience today, recreating the neighbourly support of the past. This can happen anywhere, in your street or starting a new community using empty homes or building new.
(Image: shared space in Springhill Cohousing, Glouchestershire. http://tinyurl.com/nyq85h6 Creative Common licence.)
Shareable and Liveable 