Corani Housing and Land Co-op

Mission: Cooperative Housing

From www.ic.org/directory/corani-housing-and-land-co-op/:

Corani is a small housing and land cooperative established in 1978 and based in Devon and Leicester. On the edge of the town of Crediton in Devon 5 residents live in a semi-detached Georgian house bought by Corani in 2013. In Leicester two residents live in a terraced Victorian house bought by Corani in 1996. Three other members, not currently housed by Corani, live elsewhere in Leicester.
The Crediton house has a large garden around it in which we grow as many fruits, vegetables and herbs as we can, whilst leaving enough space to play football with the dog. We have chickens and a homemade beehive with a successful colony that produces delicious honey.
We aim to live as sustainably as we can in our current situation; The Leicester house has installed solar panels and the Crediton house have ongoing work making the house as insulated as possible.
The Corani members in each house share all communal living spaces and food and eat together every evening. In Crediton a casual cooking rota means that everyone cooks at least once a week. Decision making is essentially pragmatic: by consensus where all are concerned, otherwise with sensitive autonomy.
Things some or all of us like to do are: being outside, growing things, making things, carpentry, plumbing, playing music, dancing, climbing rocks and mountains, camping, bird watching, promoting sustainability, promoting devolved government.
We don’t currently have the capacity to take on new members, but may wish to do so in the future, so if you would like to learn more about Corani then please do get in touch.

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