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Snow1964 said:

Apologies for going slightly off topic, but today Government has announced who are partners in next 70,000 social homes (names of organisations, not where they are building, so don't know how near stations they are)

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More than 70,000 social and affordable homes to be built across England over 10 years

Funding has been granted to Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire as well as £6bn for London.

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Ministers have announced where more than 70,000 social and affordable homes will be built in England over the next 10 years as part of an initial allocation of almost £10bn, in a bid to address the housing crisis.

Funding has been granted to Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North East England, and Liverpool. An additional £6bn was previously announced for London.

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Council wins close to £100m to build more than 1,400 council homes and unlocks £600m strategic investment in city housing

The government announced today that Cambridge City Council has won its bid for a £96.4m grant for social and affordable housing and selected the council as one of only three local authorities selected for a Strategic Partnership designed to accelerate council home delivery.

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The government announced today that Cambridge City Council has won its bid for a £96.4m grant for social and affordable housing and selected the council as one of only three local authorities selected for a Strategic Partnership designed to accelerate council home delivery.

The Strategic Partnership will finance 803 council homes, 723 of which will be offered at social rent, the lowest tier of rent at just 40-45% of the market rate. Winning the bid also unlocks a £584m funding package previously committed by the council to deliver a bigger programme of nearly 3,000 new homes by 2036, 1,400 of which will be new council homes with at least 60% of these at social rent. This programme represents the biggest investment in social housing in a generation and will significantly increase availability of social housing in Cambridge.

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New Cambridge apartment blocks will have no affordable housing

Plans are approved as one resident urges "we need these council homes in our area".

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No affordable housing will be built as part of the redevelopment of two city centre apartment blocks, councillors have been told.

Cambridge City Council's planning committee has approved plans to demolish Hanover Court and Princess Court, both off Hills Road, to make way for 165 new flats.

The plans received the green light at a meeting, external last week despite concerns that it would mean losing social housing at the site.

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The partnership hoped to apply for funding from Homes England which could mean affordable housing eventually returning to the site, he told the meeting.

"We are aiming to ensure that 72 homes for Hanover and Princess will be council homes with the majority of those at social rent," he said.

However, planning officer Aaron Coe made it clear there was no guarantee that funding would come.

"The Homes England funding process is separate to the planning process," he explained.

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Cambridge flats will have council homes after ethics concerns

A city council estate earmarked for demolition will now include council homes due to new funding.

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The replacement for a city centre council estate due to be demolished will include social housing after government funding was confirmed.

Hanover Court and Princess Court, off Hills Road in Cambridge - said by developers to be in poor condition, too small and unable to meet fire safety standards - will be knocked down.

When planning approval was given, there was no guarantee council homes would be built - raising questions about the "ethics" - but Cambridge City Council has received funding from Homes England to build 72 council homes as part of the 165-flat development.

Ben Binns, assistant director of development at the council, said the authority was "delighted" with the funding.

It is part of a £96.4m grant for social and affordable housing given to Cambridge City Council as part of a "strategic partnership", which will ultimately form part of a programme for 1,400 council homes by 2036.

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brad465 said:

It was a stupid target to set for a first term back in power, even though I do believe they genuinely want to build more. It made more sense as a second-term manifesto commitment, as then in theory they would have laid the groundwork (no pun intended) in the first term to be able to accelerate building. What's actually happened is that developers have been able to have the government over a barrel, knowing they are desperate to get stuff being built.

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