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Combined Authority signs, seals and delivers on 110 new affordable homes for the region
A further 110 new affordable homes have been completed across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to help families whose needs are not met by the current housing market. The new units, which have been funded through the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority’s affordable housing programme, have been finished within the last financial quarter and many of them […]
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Housing committee approve substitution for 36 affordable homes with £1,438,000 grant funding
The Housing and Communities Committee of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has today (3 November 2021), approved a £1,438,000 grant to substitute and reuse funding for the development of 36 affordable homes in Peterborough. Approval of the grant will see the building of an additional 10 affordable flats, and 26 affordable homes for shared ownership […]
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Affordable Housing Programme is on course to deliver more than 2,000 homes before the end of March 2022
Thanks to the co-operation of local house builder, planning authorities and funding from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Combined Authority has started 37 projects totalling 733 units and the Housing and Communities Committee has approved a further 15 projects which are subject to MHCLG approval. That will add a further 770 […]
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£4.5m funding for 113 affordable homes in East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough
Today the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority housing committee gave approval on 4.5 million of grant funding to help create 113 new affordable homes across East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough. The housing committee gave approval for: A grant from the Combined Authority’s £100m Affordable Housing Programme of £1,576,000 was approved for 38 homes, 28 at […]
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Work begins on new £100K homes
Work has begun on four new £100K Homes in South Cambridgeshire, which will be available to local working people for £100,000 by the end of this year. The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority led by Mayor James Palmer is working with Laragh Homes to bring forward four new £100K Homes on the land to the North of Linton Road, Great Abington. […]
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Mayor Blog overview of the year 2020
Few will be sad to see the back of 2020, but I want to finish this year by highlighting those things of which I am so proud. Covid-19 has had a hideous impact on so many lives, but what the team at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has achieved this year has been incredible. […]
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Major milestone for Community Land Trust as keys handed over to final four affordable homes for local people
A pioneering East Cambridgeshire Community Land Trust (CLT) set up by local people to build more affordable homes in their community, has passed a major milestone with the final four of its 23 properties now completed and occupied. The affordable homes at the Stretham and Wilburton Community Land Trust’s (SWCLT) Manor Farm development in Stretham are allocated to those with strong connections to the […]
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A look inside the first £100K Homes
For the first time, the public get to look inside the first £100K Homes as James Palmer, Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough releases exclusive photos of the recently completed properties in Fordham. Despite construction setbacks this year due to Covid-19, the eight £100K homes have been delivered by Hill development in time for Christmas and […]
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First £100K Homes to be offered at a discount of over a third of market value
Market rate valuations on the first eight £100K Homes at Fordham, Cambridgeshire have revealed they were offered to buyers at a discount rate of 35%. The ground floor flats were valued at £150K and the first-floor flats at £155K but will be sold to the prospective first buyers at £100,000. This means that all subsequent […]
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£900k to build final ‘Quick Wins’ for March – and deliver a kid’s crossing for Christmas
Children, cyclists and Christmas shoppers will be among the first to benefit from today’s decision by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, led by Mayor James Palmer, to release almost a million pounds to start constructing the remaining ‘Quick Wins’ in the March Area Transport Study. Following the recommendation of its Transport and Infrastructure Committee, the […]
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Combined Authority progress report reaffirms commitment to economic recovery
In a confident report on the progress into its Devolution Deal with government, the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority provides strong evidence to the November Board that it is delivering on its twenty five year mission to double to region’s economy and is working for economic recovery following the Covid pandemic. The report, requested by the Combined Authority leaders back in October, provides an assessment on the 2017 Devolution Deal with the government. It shows significant progress on its ambitious long-term plans to deliver growth and public […]
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Mayor to deliver over 450 new affordable homes for residents across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority led by Mayor James Palmer has today approved the spend of £19.1 million to create 453 new affordable homes over 13 sites for people right across the region. In 2017, the Combined Authority negotiated £100m of government funding to create 2,000 new affordable homes for people living in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough by March 2022. The 453 affordable homes announced today bring the Combined Authority significantly closer to this target. […]
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Mayor urges more developers to come on board with £100K Home housing project, as demand for £100K homes in Fordham, Cambridgeshire exceeds supply by 28 to 1
Mayor James Palmer is encouraging housing developers to work with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority in bringing forward more £100K Homes after receiving 228 applications for eight £100K Homes in Fordham, Cambridgeshire. Of the 228 applications received, 147 had the necessary local connections to Fordham to make them suitable for the homes available there, […]
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority partners with Share to Buy to promote affordable home ownership in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
As part of ongoing work to ensure more people have access to affordable housing across the region, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has announced a partnership with first-time buyer property portal, Share to Buy, to raise the profile of affordable home ownership options across the region. Supported by Mayor James Palmer, the dedicated platform on the Share to Buy website […]
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£100K Home for Christmas – first set of homes for £100,000 now available to purchase in Fordham, Cambridgeshire
Apply for the first £100K Homes in Fordham by 12 October 2020 The first eight £100K Homes, in Fordham, Cambridgeshire, are now available for eligible buyers to apply to purchase. The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, led by Mayor James Palmer, is inviting applications for the homes from local working people who fit three key […]
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Mayor’s Blog: Home Start for Home Service
It’s hard to describe my delight this week when I joined some well-spaced colleagues at Rayner’s Green in Fordham at the Topping Out ceremony for the first eight £100k Homes, which are due for completion by the end of this year. There’s a touch of poetry about topping out – it’s when a building achieves […]
Find out moreCombined Authority to deliver another 296 affordable homes for Fenland, Peterborough and Huntingdon
The Mayoral Combined Authority has today revealed it will be providing 296 additional affordable homes across Fenland, Peterborough and Huntingdon, taking the Authority over three quarters of the way towards delivering on its promise to build 2,000 new affordable homes by 2022. The new affordable homes announced today, take the total up to 1,596 funded […]
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First ever £100K Homes now under construction in key milestone for scheme’s birth
Work is underway to build Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s first ever £100K Homes. Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, James Palmer, who is spearheading the groundbreaking scheme, visited a new housing development in Fordham today (March 3), where the first eight £100K Homes will be completed before the end of 2020. Mayor Palmer met […]
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Public urged to back trailblazing £100k Homes after website launches
People in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are being urged to show their support for £100K Homes via a new website for the innovative scheme which makes one-bedroom properties available to buy for £100,000. Driven by James Palmer, Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, £100K Homes will offer an affordable step on to the housing […]
Find out moreMayor Palmer updates housing minister on infrastructure plans
Meeting Mayor James Palmer during her visit to Cambridgeshire yesterday, housing minister Esther McVey said she believed that successful development demanded infrastructure be put into place before homes themselves are built. The minister was visiting Northstowe where Homes England, the Government’s housing agency, officially opens its office on the site where the new town is […]
Find out moreMayor James Palmer sees first-hand new shared ownership housing scheme unlocked by Combined Authority in Melbourn
Mayor James Palmer today (Friday 14th) visited new homes in Melbourn, South Cambridgeshire, which were unlocked through the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority’s £100 million Affordable Housing Fund. The eight homes are part of a new phase at Victoria Heights being built by local company Granary Developments. They will provide prospective owners with the opportunity […]
Find out moreHousing figures need revisiting to meet growth ambitions
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority plans to establish ambitious housing targets to 2050 that will capture the true housing needs of the local area, stating that current figures fail to fully take into consideration local plans for growth. A new housing assessment is being commissioned to look at higher growth scenarios for our local area, […]
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Sixteen affordable homes completed in Littleport
A development of 16 homes to help local people who struggle to find long term affordable housing has been completed in Littleport. Eleven families have already moved into the site which has been built due to funding from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s affordable housing programme. It allowed charitable housing association CHS Group to build […]
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Combined Authority reveals plan for the year ahead
An important milestone has been reached as the 12 key projects that will be the focus of activity throughout 2019/20 at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority were agreed. The new Business Plan was approved at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Board Meeting this week (30th January 2019). It sets out the 12 key […]
Find out moreCombined Authority agrees loan to bring 88 empty homes in Ely back into use
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Board has agreed a repayable commercial loan up to a maximum of £24.4 million to bring 88 empty homes in Ely back into use. The loan will enable the purchase of the Ministry of Defence-owned homes site at Princess of Wales hospital in Ely, where the properties currently sit vacant […]
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Landmark housing loan agreement signed for Haddenham development
A landmark loan of £6.5m has been exchanged by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority with the East Cambs Trading Company (ECTC) to support a community-led development that will deliver affordable housing for rent and sale in East Cambridgeshire. The loan, to be repaid within two years, will be used by ECTC to build 54 […]
Find out moreMayor James Palmer backs bold, innovative and ambitious housing strategy to help tackle the housing crisis in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Community land trusts, discounted homes capped at £100,000, and taking a more direct role in housing delivery through its own development company are all part of a bold and innovative new housing strategy to be recommended to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Board on Wednesday, 26th of September. The housing strategy, backed by Mayor […]
Find out moreDevelopment begins in Dogsthorpe
Work has begun to transform a brownfield site in Dogsthorpe into a 200 home development. The site of the former John Mansfield School was acquired earlier this year by leading local housing association Cross Keys Homes (CKH) as part of their plans to bring more affordable homes to Peterborough. Working with national homebuilders, Keepmoat Homes, […]
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