Affordable Housing
Peterborough City Council no longer owns or builds affordable
homes. Instead, the Housing Strategy team works closely with
developers and housing associations in order to assist them to
build new affordable homes or to acquire existing
dwellings.
The Housing Strategy team works to enable the provision of new
affordable housing, and influence what type of housing is built, in
the following ways;
- Through working with private housing developers and planning
officers to ensure that affordable housing is built as part of new
private housing developments
- By supporting the applications for government grant that
affordable housing providers make to fund new housing
development
- By providing funding to affordable housing providers directly
from council funds
Between April 2007 and March 2011, the Housing Strategy team has
worked closely with its key partners to enable over 1,750 new
affordable homes to rent and buy in Peterborough. Facts and
figures about the affordable housing enabled by the Housing
Strategy team over the last year are available on the Affordable
housing delivery page.