Apart from being the feel good buzzword of the moment, communities are something we believe in. Not rich ones, not poor ones, just normal ones that work, properly, without the need to intervene, when things start to go badly wrong.

Our view about communities is that they’re about interdependence not independence. They’re about the rediscovery of the joys of the ‘local’ to counterbalance our appetite for the global. They’re about looking out for each other, and finding once again that loving thy neighbour can be  truly platonic.

We also think that all good communities are about mix, mixed income, mixed tenure, mixed use. After all there is much more that unites us than divides us, and we all need somewhere to buy a pint of milk that we can walk to in our slippers.