Covent Garden London
The heart of London's West End
Seven Dials Housing Co-operative
Although Seven Dials Housing Co-operative was formed in the early 1970s - around the closing of the Market - our true role in Covent Garden evolves as the area itself changes. Choices are becoming increasingly stark: another shoe shop or a place to live for those born and raised here?
There is real pressure on local affordable housing for local people. It has come to the point where "how can you afford to live in Covent Garden" is a stock question. The happy answer (of course!) is that the Seven Dials Housing Co-operative provides affordable and well-maintained accommodation for people with a strong connection to the area, be it through family or work, though there is never enough of it to go round, even for our priority, single tenants.
In addition to our own properties, we have established a good reputation for responsible management of 'short-life' housing held and managed in perpetuity for others. We are constantly on the look-out for new properties.
If you would like to see 'one less coffee bar and one more home' and have housing property in and around the Covent Garden area that you would like to be responsibly managed and tenanted, please contact our Co-ordinator, Alasdair Willmore on 020 7379 3534 for further details.
John Wischmeyer
Covent Garden Community Association Annual Report 2000-2001
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