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or new listings to office@evnuk.org.uk or write
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ECO~VILLAGE NETWORK UK (EVNUK), PO BOX 1410, BRISTOL, BS99 3JP
Core group of 12 people meeting regularly to organise the birth of a co-housing ecovillage in Dorset. Group started summer 1997.
Contact Jan Bradshaw 01308 458891,
Chris Wormold 0850 463804 or
Joan Riley 01308 423045
Dragon Hill is a bender community located in a small woodland on a hill in Somerset, close to Glastonbury. A varying number of people, many families with children, are living there long term in semi-permanent benders. There are natural springs, a communal bender, a large garden in the middle of a bramble patch, fruit trees, and lots of trees.
Contact:
It is our intention to try and establish a working model here in Devon either by building and living in an ecovillage or sustainable settlement or creating a framework community that operates as a force for co-operation and change. Homesteaders is the tentative name for this experiment. This association would be a tool to facilitate the creation of a working eco/socio/economic hamlet within Devon’s county plan.
Contact: Neil
59 Winchester Avenue, Barton, Torquay, Devon TQ2 8AR
Tel 01803 313827
Update January 2001 - Watch this space
Autonomous environmental housing, new habitats, organic food production, permaculture, coppicing, workshops for small sustainable businesses and an open-air theatre will combine to provide a vibrant community able to provide its own food, energy, water and many renewable materials. For further details please visit our web-site and get involved with one of the most significant sustainable development projects in Europe.
Contact: Nick Nakorn
Flat 3, Indio House, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9BG
Telephone: 01626 835610
Mobile: 0410 441 248
E-mail: indio@gn.apc.org
Project web site: http://www.gn.apc.org/indio/
Personal web site: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~nakorn/
A few miles from Junction 12 of the M1 is the pine-covered venue for an ecovillage designed with the "imaginative professional" in mind. The development will be as self-sufficient as possible, supplying its own electricity, growing organic veg, and with a model smallholding also. There will be a full-time manager/caretaker there, and a core feature of the village will be 'outreach' work (encouraging visitors, conference centre, a consultancy). Planning permission and funding are all sorted out, and work should have started on the site by summer 1998. This project follows the more commercial route of building the place first, and then finding people to buy the houses; rather than a community getting together and designing the village according to their own needs.
Contact William Sutherland,
Millbrook Golf Course, Ampthill, Beds;
Tel: 01525 405084;
e-mail: 113043.2162@compuserve.com
A self-build eco-hamlet scheme for clusters of six to eight households using Walter Segal timber frame buildings on combined smallholdings managed according to permaculture principles.
This project seeks to implement social housing mechanisms such as Housing Associations for the rehabilitation into the countryside of the landless and personnel without collateral for rejuvenation of rural areas on land supplied by the Local Authority thus honouring Local Agenda 21 Chapter Seven directives. Groups interested in setting up similar projects are encouraged to approach and work with their own local authorities.
An Oak-Copse brochure is available for 4 x 1st class stamps to:
Contact: Mrs Maureen Boustred
6/36 East Hill, Knatts Valley, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 6YE
Tel 01959 524869
A group of 5+ people based in the Bristol area looking for land to set up an ecovillage. Group set up summer 1997. Aiming towards exotic mushroom growing and worm farming. Aiming to become as self-sufficient as possible and to be living in yurts etc.. Other design/permaculture ideas welcome.
Contact
Keely on 0117 964 1026 or
John on 0117 985 4206.
Has her own eco living vision. She's based in Kent and would like to discuss ideas with like-minded people.
Contact
3 Manor Road, Sole Street, Cobham, nr. Gravesham, Kent DA13 9BW
Tel 01474 814347
An enthusiastic local group, some of whom are hoping to create their own eco-village soon. At present, the project is at the stage where they are still looking for land, but they would welcome contact from any interested parties in the area.
Contact Linda Joslin,
20 Essex Avenue, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 6YZ;
Tel 01787 880694.
A land project based network with ecology and community at heart. They want to buy land for ecological restoration and, naturally, need funds and farmers.
Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/nattytrust
A nineteenth century property of 16 houses and 110 acres, situated 15 miles south of Oxford, which has recently been bought by Berkeley homes. They have so far put in 4 planning applications to build loads of luxury flats on the site, all of which have been refused, but on their fifth try, the plans were accepted. Fortunately, however, everything is on hold now, as the Secretary of State has called for a public enquiry, and the Permaculture Academy feel this could be a good time to convince them of the pressing need for sustainable development. They are proposing to turn the site, instead, into a sustainable village, combined with a 'College for Sustainablity'. The first step is to ask Berkeley to allow them into the buildings in order to do a feasibility study: it could be quite embarrassing for Berkeley if they refuse to do even this.
Contact Andy at the Permaculture Academy,
8 Helen Rd, Oxford, OX2 ODE.
Update January 2001 - subject to a second public planning inquiry.