PORTLAND: Ambitious plans for an unusual co-housing project are set to be submitted for approval.
A group of retired professionals want to develop a community centered around a disused factory.
The group includes a retired doctor, diplomat, civil servant and several architects and they are all aged 55 upwards.
They want to create an eco-friendly community where they each live independently in their own homes, but with shared facilities.
The site already has planning permission for 23 homes.
The group is seeking permission to build a terrace of 17 two and three-bedroom houses and six flats.
All the homes will be designed and built to the Passivhaus standard..