Category Archives: News

Dear Community, Work on the site has started again with sewage drains and the associated manholes etc now going in on the actual East Whins Co-housing Cluster land.  The contract for all the infrastructure work will be for the next nine weeks and will enable the site to be ready for the main contractor to … Read more…

Dear Community, Another short note to confirm that the contractors that will be laying the sewage pipe for East Whins will be starting next week. They will be starting at the north side of the site and laying the Foundation runway section last. This means that any disruption outside the site will not happen until … Read more…

Dear Community, A very short note this time to say that quietness is likely to reign on the Duneland site until the week starting the 15th of August. That is when the crews for working on the sewage pipe installation will be available. Even then they will be starting to lay the pipe on the … Read more…

Dear Community, You will have noticed that all major earthworks have now been completed for this phase and the machinery has been taken away off site. Thank you for your tolerance in enduring this earth shaking and noisy part of the build in such a good natured and supportive way. Very little will happen for … Read more…

Dear Community, A short bulletin this week to keep you up to date with the ongoing process of the development. Leveling of the site has basically been completed and whilst the machinery has been on the land, movement and spreading of the recycled concrete as a sub-base for all the roads and car parking areas … Read more…

Dear Community, The first part of the job of concrete removal and crushing to recycle the material for new roads, paths and parking is now complete. It was not as disruptive as had been expected but unfortunately part of the earthmoving operation has been creating problems. Substantial areas of dumped and contaminated material has had … Read more…

Dear Community, Much has happened on the Duneland site in this past week.  You will be glad to know that all the concrete that is coming out has been removed; it was a noisy process and made the Hall and other buildings shake as it happened.  A mountain of concrete has been created at the … Read more…

Dear Community, All the Health and Safety pre-commencement of works considerations and paper work has now been put in place to allow work to legally start on the site.  You will have noticed that the fencing of the construction site has happened and today you will see a gate going in at the top of … Read more…

Dear Community, At 3.30am this morning, I arrived back from trekking with my son and John Willoner in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco having just left the city of Marrakech which was simmering in a heat of 45C yesterday!  I have taken time this morning to make myself aware of the progress of the … Read more…

Dear Community, The blessing of the land to be built on behind the Hall will have happened later today and most probably before you read this.  This starts a yearlong build process to create the twenty-five-house East Whins Cohousing Cluster and the infrastructure for West Whins.  I know it will be a summer start and … Read more…