RUSS’ Community Engagement Team needs your help to plan temporary uses for our recently secured Church Grove site in Ladywell, as well as other engagement work. The team has a community-oriented, grassroots and participatory approach to community engagement. We will be engaging with
There will be a RUSS stall at Hilly Fields Fayre, which is a fun community event on Saturday 18th June, midday to 5pm. We need volunteers to help run the stall and promote RUSS and community-led housing. Jobs include giving
RUSS’s Church Grove project was featured in the South London Press on Sunday May 8th 2016! ‘Self-builders are RUSS-ing to start’
The first workshop of RUSS’s ‘co-design’ process took place on Sunday 1st May at Crofton Park Community Library. Our Residents’ Group for the Church Grove project were shown the ropes by RUSS’s architects and advisors, and the first discussions on
RUSS’ emerging project at Church Grove, Ladywell was featured in London newspaper the Evening Standard on Saturday 7th May 2016: Lewisham residents build their own dream homes to beat London’s housing crisis
The inaugural meeting of the Church Grove residents’ group– those lucky people selected by ballot to self-build RUSS’s first homes– took place on 6th May in Deptford. Future neighbours met for the first time, and our architects and project managers
Friday 29th April 2016 will go down in RUSS folklore as the day we secured the Church Grove site for our first affordable, self-build housing project in partnership with the London Borough of Lewisham. The conditional Development Agreement (DA) paves
Got expertise or skills in architecture, design, sustainability, event organising or administration? Do you want to work with RUSS’ architects and self-builders as they embark on the process of designing new affordable homes for London? RUSS is calling for volunteers
On Friday 18th March RUSS’ members gathered at the Council Chamber of Lewisham Town Hall for the Church Grove ballot. From the 150+ applications received, the ballot randomly selected 32 successful applicants to design and self-build their own home in Ladywell. More
Applications have now opened for our first RUSS housing project at Church Grove. Here’s the full press release: A rare opportunity for Lewisham residents to apply for one of 33 affordable new homes within the borough has been announced. Expressions of
