Housing
We are committed to housing in Peterborough - encouraging development of new homes for ownership and rent, providing assistance with housing benefits, grants, improvement advice, and meeting the city's current and future housing needs.
In these pages you can find information on many different
aspects of housing in Peterborough.
Find out about our strategy for
housing in Peterborough for the future, including shared ownership.
Visit the Housing Allocation pages to
find information and advice about social housing in Peterborough,
and how to join the Peterborough Housing Register.
We have many schemes to help residents in
Peterborough:
- Care and Repair Agency helps people across the city to live independently in their own homes
- Peterborough Supporting People, a national government funded initiative, assists vulnerable people in the community
- Empty Homes initiative is helping to bring empty homes back into use.
Also in these pages you can find advice on Energy Efficiency and a home maintenance guide - practical help
and advice about how to maintain and carry out simple repairs to
your home.
Peterborough
Homes - Your Choice is our Choice Based Lettings scheme.
This scheme gives people the chance to choose which properties they
would like to be considered for. Different properties are
advertised each week.
Audit Commission Report (April 2004)
- View the Audit Commission's Report on the Strategic Housing
Service.
Consultation - view and comment
upon Housing related documents currently out for
consultation
- Plans for zero carbon homes to be unveiled (7 Jan 2009)
- Landlord fined for failing to maintain property (5 Jan 2009)
- Housing register review receives positive response (19 Dec 2008)