Peace Factory, Montolieu, France

People buying a loft here do so because they love the idea of converting an industrial building into a co-housing development based on renewable energy sources.

We're building BBC style (batiment basse consommation!) which means low on energy and energy bills!

A sustainable lifestyle means sharing things when it makes sense to share: communal ecological garden, spare bedrooms for friends, laundry centre, DIY workshop, room for training/art/dance/theatre. Future plans include electric cars for shorter journey travelling, freshwater swimming pool and well-being centre.

The site is set in a beautiful natural environment a few hundred metres from the small village of Montolieu which has kindergarten and primary schools, shops, chemist, bakery, restaurants.

The village of roughly 750 inhabitants is 18 Km from Carcassonne, famous for it double walled medieval city and the Canal du Midi.

Montolieu is situated in South-West France, between Toulouse and Narbonne in the foothills of the Black Mountain, overlooking the Pyrenees across the Lauragais plain.