London Times reports that "communes are back in fashion"

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Codicts Team
  • March 12, 2010

“We’re all in this together” is the headline of a recent article in the Real Estate section of the TimesOnline that looks favorably on the rise in sustainable communities in the UK.

What do you share with your neighbours? A cup of sugar? A dividing wall? Despair over the way that your recycling boxes always seem to be thrown back over the hedge?

For a growing number of communities across Britain, the answer is much, much more. New communes, ranging from listed urban properties converted into self-contained flats with communal space to new-build eco-villages on rural smallholdings, are springing up, offering communal living with a contemporary twist.

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