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Peterborough Housing Cooperative

Peterborough Housing Cooperative

Situated in inner-city Ōtautahi (Christchurch), Peterborough Co-op is seven households in a row with joined-up back yards. It started in 1982.

The 2011 earthquake terminally damaged all the houses.

We have completely rebuilt the cooperative to a purpose designed pocket neighbourhood.

It has 14 townhouses around a huge central courtyard, with a neighbourhood house. 
Peterborough is a Project of the Ōtākaro Land Trust
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Peterborough Pocket Neighbourhood Site Plan

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Peterborough Housing Cooperative is being rebuilt now, after being extensively damaged in the 2011 earthquake. 

The new pocket neighbourhood has 14 dwellings cluster around a large common courtyard. Plus a common house/education centre, and adjoining section for parking.

You are able to view the build from the footpath at 175 Peterborough Street, Central City, Christchurch.

No on-site tours are currently available until the new pocket neighbourhood is finished, which is quite soon.
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Resident Management

Co-operative enterprises are those controlled and managed by their residents, workers, or consumers. The residents run the cooperative, and decisions are made by consensus.

Peterborough has a common lounge, bike shed, laundry, tool shed, vaccuum cleaner, give-away collection, garages, picnic tables, bee hives, basketball hoop, compost bins, trailer, lawn-mower and tree-hut.

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Weekly Pot Luck Dinner
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Annual Christmas Water Fight

Sense of Community

Peterborough gives a sense of extended family-like ties. Each household is in charge of itself, but is also part of something bigger. Formally this consists of a weekly pot-luck dinner in the common lounge or outside in summer. Residents also have a monthly working-bee for house and yard upkeep.

Informal chats are probably more significant (and just being able to borrow a cup of sugar).

It's much like how neighbourhood's used to be.
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Peterborough Housing Co-operative
173 - 183 Peterborough Street, Central Christchurch

A project of the
Ōtākaro Land Trust
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