An exciting new initiative for Stourbridge enabling community participation in the acquisition of land for the development of sustainable, affordable, inspiring homes designed and built by the people who will live in them.


If we can form a community that consists of Carpenters, plumbers and electricians as well as solicitors, architects and surveyors we will be able to build beautiful ecologically, physically, environmentally and socially sustainable homes for a fraction of the cost of buying an off the shelf "baked bean tin" house

Are we customers in this kleptomaniac society or are we actually citizens?

Read Ground Control by Anna Minton and discover how we are being sold to the profiteers...

A very readable account of how our public spaces, our birthright and our inheritance is being sold to developers by the very institutions that should be protecting it.

Essential reading for any developer, architect, town planner or anyone else who actually cares about the environment in which we live.