🏛️ Championing co-operative housing in Parliament! 🏡🤝![]()
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The Confederation of Co-operative Housing was delighted to take part in an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mutuals meeting in the House of Commons to discuss the future of co-operative housing and the changes needed to help our sector grow.![]()
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The meeting provided an important opportunity to highlight two key priorities for the sector:![]()
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🔹 Co-operative tenure: Building on our work with the Co-operative Party and Andrew Pakes MP’s 10 Minute Rule Bill in April 2025, we discussed the Government’s stated willingness to legislate for a co-operative housing tenure — an important step towards giving co-operative housing greater recognition and support.![]()
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🔹 Access to finance: We need appropriate and affordable funding mechanisms to enable housing co-operatives and community-led housing initiatives to flourish, alongside council housing and other forms of affordable housing.![]()
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With over 220 members across the UK, growing international connections and record-breaking attendance at our recent Annual Conference, the co-operative housing movement has much to celebrate — but there is still more to do!![]()
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We believe everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from housing that puts people, community and democratic control at its heart. With the right legislation, financing and political support, co-operative housing can play a greater role in delivering genuinely affordable, community-led homes across the UK.![]()
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A big thank you to Gareth Thomas MP, Chair of the APPG on Mutuals, and everyone involved in the meeting for helping to keep co-operative housing on the parliamentary agenda.![]()
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Together, we can build a stronger future for co-operative housing! 🏡💚 #coophousing
Great initiative from Drumchapel Housing Co-operative up in Scotland!
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Anthony Collins Solicitors podcast - Respect Orders, overview of the new ASBI regime![]()
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In this podcast episode, they explain how Respect Orders will replace Antisocial Behaviour Injunctions for the most serious cases involving harassment, alarm or distress, while housing injunctions and youth injunctions will be used in other circumstances. They explore the key legal tests, the new requirement for risk assessments, the role of vulnerability and safeguarding considerations, and how the new enforcement regime will operate.
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Join Rebecca Sembuuze and Banita Gogia as they discuss the introduction of respect orders under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 and what these changes mean for social...
Great article in the Livepool Echo about a couple of the co-ops up in Liverpool! Some of you will recognise Brian and Jimmy from our CCH Conference 🙂 #coophousing
Radical housing schemes launched decades ago still helping people
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The Merseyside schemes became popular in the mid-1970s and 80s
🏘️ Congratulations to Weller Streets Housing Co-operative – a remarkable piece of co-operative heritage![]()
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In 1977, residents in Liverpool faced poor housing conditions and the threat of their community being dispersed. Rather than accept that future, they came together to create something different: a housing co-operative shaped by the people who would live there.![]()
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Around 70 residents took part in an intensive participatory design process. By 1982, 67 homes had been created around landscaped communal spaces designed to encourage safety, sociability and everyday community life.![]()
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What makes Weller Streets so special is that co-operation shaped not only how the homes were managed, but how the neighbourhood itself was designed. Tenant-members had a genuine voice in creating the environment they would collectively inhabit.![]()
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The principles became known as “The Weller Way”, influencing other housing co-operative initiatives across Merseyside.![]()
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Weller Streets reminds us that co-operative heritage isn't simply about buildings. It's about people, participation, democratic decision-making, mutual support and the power of communities to shape their own futures. ❤️![]()
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A powerful example of how secure housing and collective ownership can help preserve communities and build stronger neighbourhoods.![]()
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