Tag: affordable housing
Partners celebrate high point for hundreds of new homes
Work to regenerate a central area of Peterborough moved forward this week with a topping out ceremony at the Indigo development of 315 Combined Authority-funded homes at Northminster, in the heart of the city. Deputy Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Cllr Anna Smith, joined the developer Cross Keys Homes to celebrate ‘topping out’ – the […]
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Six affordable housing schemes to lay foundations before end of March
The Housing and Communities Committee heard today (Wednesday 9th March) that six affordable housing schemes are to officially start on site before the 31st March 2022. Under the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Affordable Housing programme, the six sites will host a combined total of 595 homes. The homes will be provided through a mixture […]
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Ground-breaking ceremony held at site of new affordable homes
A ground-breaking ceremony has taken place at British Sugar’s former headquarters off Oundle Road, Peterborough, where works will begin in the near future to build 74 new affordable homes for Cross Keys Homes. The £14million scheme, which has received grant funding from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, will provide 45 affordable rented and 29 shared […]
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Partners gather as 96 new homes get underway
Cross Keys Homes (CKH) met with their development partners Vistry Partnerships and dignitaries from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and Peterborough City Council this week to celebrate the start of development works on the former Perkins Sports Association land. The leading housing association acquired the land back in 2014 and earlier this year received planning […]
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£6 million grant could lead two former office building conversions into affordable homes in Peterborough
The Housing and Communities Committee of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, today (6 September) gave the green light for £6,120,000 grant funding to support the conversion of two former offices in Peterborough into residential units. Conversion of the office in Bayard Plaza has been completed, and the former Yorkshire Building Society premises in Lynch Wood […]
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Housing committee approve plans for 27 additional shared ownership homes with £1,209,000 grant funding
The Housing and Communities Committee of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has today, (6 September), approved a £1,209,000 grant to fund the development of 27 affordable homes with shared ownership in East Cambridgeshire, Peterborough City and Fenland District Council areas. The grant allocated is to support the building of: 11 new homes for shared ownership […]
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Unlocked funds show confidence in new housing committee and mayor
On Friday (3 September), Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority received confirmation that funding for 18 schemes, which had been identified in its affordable housing programme, has now been approved. The welcome news will now secure the delivery of 1,188 affordable homes across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. In the letter from Luke Hall MP, Minister for Regional […]
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£16,788,750 grant funding approved for affordable housing across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Grant Funding of £16,788,750 has today (21 June 2021) been approved by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority’s Housing and Communities Committee. The grants will support three housing projects which form part of the Combined Authority’s £100M Affordable Housing Programme to build 2,000 homes before March 2022: £2,082,000 for 50 new homes (41 affordable rented properties […]
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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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Mayor Welcomes Housing Committee’s Housing Programme Decision
Mayor Palmer welcomed today the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Housing & Infrastructure Committee’s approval to complete the Government’s Housing Programme. MHCLG recently confirmed that they would fund all housing projects, subject to confirmation of additionality and value for money, that would start on site by March 2022, allaying concerns that the programme might be […]
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£3.1m funding for 82 affordable homes in East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough
Today the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority housing committee gave approval on £3.1million of grant funding to help create 82 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 £2,168,625 for a mix of 60 new or converted […]
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Mayoral Statement on Housing Funding
It is clear that current consensus to house build is not working; we are still neither building the number of homes we need, nor doing so in a sustainable way. Backed by the Combined Authority Board, I have always been determined to find new and innovative ways to tackle this problem. That is why, rather […]
Find out moreMayor celebrates build of the first £100K Home
Mayor James Palmer has today (Tuesday 4 August 2020 at 14.00) celebrated the build of the first £100K homes by attending a Topping Out ceremony hosted by Hill developers and partners Scotsdale Garden Centre. The ceremony took place at Rayners Green development in Fordham, Cambridgeshire where the first eight £100K Homes are under construction, expected […]
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Mayor welcomes Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission report
Mayor James Palmer has welcomed ‘Living with Beauty’, the report of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission chaired by the late Sir Roger Scruton and Nicholas Boys Smith. The Mayor said: “I welcome the Building Better, Building Beautiful report. My ambition is to make Cambridgeshire and Peterborough the leading place in the world to live, […]
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More affordable homes for Huntingdonshire and Cambridge after funding agreed
The Housing and Communities Committee of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has approved funding for 81 affordable homes at sites across Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire on Monday. Three different sites in Stilton, Ramsey and Alconbury will provide 42, 11 and 17 affordable homes respectively, through a mixture of social rent, affordable rent and shared ownership. […]
Find out moreAffordable Housing funded for South Cambs
An opportunity to create more affordable housing in South Cambridgeshire was approved by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Board at their meeting yesterday. The Board agreed to loan £5.78m from the £40m revolving fund for Affordable Housing to Linton Road (Great Abingdon) LLP to deliver the scheme. Currently the planning permission includes 5 affordable […]
Find out moreCombined Authority Board approves spend from quarter million fund for innovative affordable housing schemes
The Combined Authority has today approved funding for a new dedicated team tasked with establishing Community Land Trusts to strengthen communities and deliver affordable housing across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The board also signed off on spend from a £150,000 pot to deliver the Mayor’s flagship affordable ownership housing scheme ‘£100k Homes’. The cash for a […]
Find out moreMayor pushes £100k homes and affordable housing up the agenda
Unlocking more affordable housing and giving a boost to the ‘revolutionary’ £100k home’ are among the six projects Mayor James Palmer has added to the Combined Authority’s list of urgent priorities during the mid-year tweak to the business plan. The Mayor won Board approval today for his plan to push more money into powering up […]
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Combined Authority signs off £6.1 million for new homes
Three substantial grants to help more people find affordable homes in Peterborough were today (Wed July 31st) approved by the Board of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority. The money, agreed subject to conditions, will pay for the development of 88 homes at a brownfield site in Werrington, 33 homes in Drake Avenue, and 25 […]
Find out moreCombined Authority grant funding success for Medesham Homes
Medesham Homes, an equal Joint Venture between partners Cross Keys Homes and Peterborough City Council, has been successful in its bid for grant funding from Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority to help build desperately needed affordable homes in Peterborough. As part of the Combined Authority’s commitment to seek to accelerate the delivery of affordable housing, […]
Find out moreAnother step forward for Soham station as Mayor James Palmer visits for first monitoring works
Mayor James Palmer donned his hard hat and high-vis jacket on Friday (March 22) at the planned new Soham railway station site to see first-hand another step forward in its delivery. The Mayor joined Network Rail at the site, off Station Road, to see noise monitoring studies which are needed to support a future planning […]
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