Written by Charlotte Page for In Your Area, this article reports on the first cohousing project in Cambridge, UK, "Marmalade Lane", which has recently been awarded the UK Project of the Year prize, for its groundbreaking social innovation and its collaborative design process. Within the global rise in interest for and traction of the community housing movement, such awards and public recognition are an occasion for cohousing initiatives to be more succesfully mainstreamed as an increasingly popular approach to living together.