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PROPERTY FOR RENT
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OFFICE & BUSINESS PREMISES
STUDIOS & WORKSHOPS

The Storey Creative Industries Centre
Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH, (nr The Train Station). Tel: 01524 509000.
After a £3million renovation project, The Storey Creative Industries Centre (SCIC) is what Lancaster has been longing for; The building where art and industry spark.
Based in one of Lancaster’s finest Grade 2 listed buildings, The SCIC contains a theatrical auditorium, lecture theatre, tasting gardens, rentable offices, workshop spaces and meeting rooms - giving room to house all the many different events covered throughout the year.
With the NICE café bar & restaurant on the ground floor, providing a cosy courtyard with which to take your drinks on, this building really does provide Lancaster, and the whole of the North West with a creative platform from which to work.

Luneside Studios
26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ
Luneside Studios have been providing studio spaces for artists in Lancaster for nearly thirty years.
Waiting time on the list is not necessarily over long as they have an ongoing short-term programme for those who only need studio space for a limited period as well as those hoping for a more permanent base.
The ethos of the Studios has always been 'to provide a working environment for artists that gives them the space and resources to develop their work'. And, as their record demonstrates, they have done so. Over one hundred artists have been members of the Studios and many have exhibited locally, nationally and worldwide, as well as some moving on to higher education.
If you are interested in finding out more about Luneside Studios and the waiting list, you can email snixon@fsmail.net or telephone 01524 848390

CO-OPS

Lancaster Cohousing
info[AT]lancastercohousing.org.uk
Tel: Sue 01524 845448 / Pete 07922035170
An intriguing and exciting concept, Lancaster-Co-Housing (LC) plan to build an ecological co-housing community in central Lancaster consisting of 15-24 homes with community facilities and workhouse/office space, appealing to a variety of household sizes and incomes.
There is currently a waiting list but you can still become a member. LC anticipate some turn-over as well as future expansion to the scheme.
To find out more, visit the website to see how you can become part of this scheme.
www.lancastercohousing.org.uk

Lancaster Cohousing Project at Halton.
Forge Bank will be an intergenerational cohousing community, consisting of 41 ecohomes, communal buildings and Halton Mill. The project is a cutting edge example of sustainable design, for both living and work with close links to the local communities. Our community will be built on trust, respect, friendship and understanding rather than rules and regulations.
What is Cohousing?
Cohousing is a housing development that balances the advantages of private homes with the benefits of shared facilities and connections with your neighbours. It is designed to encourage both social contact and individual space, and is organised, planned and managed by the residents. The houses built to PassivHaus standards contain all the features of conventional homes and are clustered around a common house with shared facilities such as a dining room, play areas, guest rooms, workshops and laundry.
Contact us
Find out more by visiting our website www.lancastercohousing.org.uk or ringing Dawn Keyse on 07515 426670. Our blog gives the latest updates on the build, which is scheduled to be fully completed by the end of 2012 with workspaces available in the Mill by early 2013. We currently have a few houses left to sell at the time of writing.

ESTATE AGENTS / PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

• Adamson's Property Management
New Business Opportunities @ Plaza Buildings, Morecambe  
We have shop premises ready to let now at very affordable and competitive rates.
Based in Morecambe town centre opposite a car park, with additional ample free parking within walking distance. Great location. Morecambe has excellent potential for businesses. Morecambe will grow and become more popular, therefore letting your business flourish.
Interested ?
Contact Sarah on 07506233606
Email: sarah.adamsonspropertymanagement@hotmail.co.uk

• Armstrong Property Services
29-31 Victoria Street, Morecambe
Tel: 01524 400406

• Aspden Gallagher
58 Market Street, Lancaster Tel. 01524 843322

• Bairstow Eves
12 New Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 62901 Also offices in Morecambe and Carnforth.
Zoe Swiderski writes (January 2003) that she found Bairstow helpful (although we have known them to be very keen to sell their financial services along with a house)

• Bradford & Bingley Entwhistle Green
67/71 Market Street, Lancaster Tel. 01524 842000
Particularly useless: not one of the houses we ever asked for details on which involved them actually posting something to us ever arrived. Hopeless.

• Sue Bridges
China Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 698811 Fax 01524 844277
Established in 1988, Sue Bridges Estate Agents have moved to larger premises to cater for the growth of our successful all-female estate agents. "Our estate agents and financial advice centre are renowned throughout the area for their friendly, personal and individual advice."

• Complete-Move Conveyancing
Suites 10-11, Church House, 96 Church Street, Lancaster LA1 1TD
Tel: 01524 848849 Fax 01524 382950
E-mail: conveyancing @complete-move.com
Regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers to provide Conveyancing Services

• Farrell Hayworth
53a Market Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 842222
3-7 Victoria Street, Morecambe Tel: 01524 832929
26 Market Street, Carnforth Tel: 01524 736777

• Fisher Wrathall
The Old Warehouse, Castle Hill, Lancaster LA1 1YN, Tel: 01524 68822, Fax: 01524 64221
E-mail: property@fisherwrathall.co.uk
Offers homes for sale and rent in North Lancashire, Cumbria, and North West Yorkshire. Also features a Commercial Property Agency, and a Survey and Valuation practice.

• Fish4Homes
Property/accommodation site

• Halifax Estate Agents
25 New Street, Lancaster Tel. 01524 843043

• Melrose Quality Homes
Moon Bay Wharf, Barrows Lane, Heysham
Tel: 01524 855550

• Ratcliffe & Bibby Solicitors and Estate Agents
69/71 Church Street, Lancaster Tel. 1524 844111. Also offices in Arnside, Carnforth and Morecambe

• Reeds Rains
Market Street, Lancaster Tel: 01524 63494

John Freeman writes: "The best advice I can give to anyone seeking to buy a house in Lancaster is: come and stay here first and do the rounds of the estate agents regularly. When we moved back here a few years ago we found that all of them were pretty terrible about updating us on possible houses when we were seeking to buy, and when properties we were seeking to buy did come up we only found about them by visiting their offices. Quite frankly, I'm amazed some of them are still in business, let alone that they actually sell any houses.
"We found Sue Bridges and Ratcliffe and Bibby to be the best in our quest: all the houses they offered us were in the right ball park and the right price and they were very helpful.

STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

Let Students
Lancaster Student Property Management & Lettings Agency.

Studenthousinglist.com
Exactly what it says on the label

Yellow Door Lets

• Leece Property Rental: Top of the range student accommodation at an average rent. Tel: 01524 389993

Satori writes: When I first came to Lancaster as a student I knew nothing about the town, or property, so I stayed on campus at first. In a tiny box where I could hear every detail of my neigbours' lives from 4 sides. One day I wondered down to Bailrigg House and was assailed by the scents of grass and trees and the sound of birdsong. I realised I had spent weeks in a concrete battery-farm in the sole company of my peers.

I found a cool pair of friends who also fancied 'leaving home' (again) and we found a house on Hubert Place in Lancaster. The hot water tank used to boil over if we forgot to turn it off and the fridge worked by gas! It was cheaper than campus though, I had a huge room with a fire, a double bed and a big sash window, a garden, a cosy living room and my first ever pet, a mad stray cat who learned to love me. The front directly overlooked the City football field so we had no problem getting gentleman callers on a saturday afternoon, which led to some fun saturday nights....

We had neighbours, there were children, older people, cats and dogs. We discovered that about half the townies you see tromping about the place also have degrees and lives and look on their student neigbours with some amusement and sympathy. Lancaster is a tiny city with two massive universities and that has completely swung the demographic.

In my final year I moved into a local farmhouse with a bunch of friends. Since then we have all lived, literally all over the globe aned gone in completely diverse directions. But I treasure my memories of those days and our friendship - they have strengthened me in every way and the bond has never faded in me.

And some of us have floated back to Lancaster, because there are many good people here and you can live a good life.

Lancaster University has far more student accomodation now and it's tempting to just stay in the student package like a tourist on a break and dodge the stronger flavours of community life.

Will you get ripped off if you rent a house in town? It's very unlikely and if should actually happen it won't be for long or for much. Will you get ripped off if you stay on campus? You'll pay a lot more for a lot less. And you'll miss out on essential life skills you need to have mastered long before you go on to that big job-hunt in the sky.

Chat to your neighbours. They're not stupid, it's just that they think you're kids and they're trying to keep it simple. Say hi in the street. Nod and smile. they do it with each other all the time. Ask what day the bins are collected and win massive brownie points. They won't bite you and they won't want to take advantage cos they already know you're skint, busy and temporary. That way, when you have your big crazy party they'll be glad you're having a bit of harmless fun instead of calling the police to bust you all.

If you have a car learn to park it neatly like your neighbours park and always leave space for a fire engine to pass. Don't dump bags of rubbish in the back alleys for your neighbours to have to deal with because no-body else will.

Be a householder. Join the world. Make the rules. Be real.