BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2012: Environment and community make happy neighbours for Lancaster Cohousing

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Pioneering development of 41 eco-homes aims to recapture the spirit of communal living

Moving into a new house and finding there's only one radiator and your guests will have to sleep in an outbuilding is probably some homebuyers' worst nightmare. But then those people probably aren't...

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