A friend of mine, William Heath, and 17 others are taking on a sustainable co-housing project down in West Sussex.

[W]e’re looking for people who might like to become part of our co-housing project. Imagine a mini-hamlet of nice houses and flats with full privacy arranged around the site of a former school in West Sussex, offering a big bonus of community atmosphere and some shared facilities. To be clear, we are *not* planning a commune with mandatory yoga sessions etc.

It’s a 40-acre site with massive walled garden, suitable for shared smallholding and shared biomass-fuelled heat and power, accessible yet hidden, dead quiet in the lovely Sussex downs at the edge of a small village. Many local people live close to the land, value it and understand how it is best used. It’s next to National Trust land, with a monastery next door and a fab Thai pub just up the road. Harveys beer available in walking distance.

The buildings look beautiful, and I envy anyone who’s in a position to take up this opportunity.