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'City must build 17,000 more homes - and two townships'



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Published Date: 29 February 2008
Email Jonny Muir
With a population explosion set to expand the city, we take a look at what the planners may have in store for the next 19 years:
A SWATHE of land between the A1(M) and Hampton has been earmarked for a new 5,000-home township.

The proposal has been put forward in an Integrated Growth Strategy (IGS) which reveals where Peterborough could build 17,000 homes over the next 19 years. That's how many homes the city area still needs to build from an original target of 20,650 first set in 2001.

To cope with an unprecedented demand for housing, the IGS – which was commissioned by urban regeneration company Opportunity Peterborough – recommends that the city must build two new "urban extensions".

The largest estate – provisionally named Great Haddon – could be built across countryside bordered by the A15 and A1(M), in a development which would see Peterborough extend its influence to Norman Cross on the Huntingdonshire border.

Meanwhile, a second 1,000-home estate called Norwood could transform land to the north east of the city.

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Prepared by global consultancy firm Arup, the 155-page IGS maps out how Peterborough will have to adapt to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's call to build an additional three million homes in the UK by 2020.

The city centre will be transformed by an additional 5,000 homes, while five neighbourhood centres – Bretton, Hampton, Millfield, Orton and Werrington, will be rejuvenated by a combined 4,000 dwellings.

By recommending two new estates and mass house-building within the existing urban boundary, the pressure on Peterborough's surrounding villages has been lifted.

"Organic growth" alone will mean that villages will meet a target of building 590 homes between them, with Eye, Glinton, Thorney and Wittering absorbing the vast majority.

The IGS also gives hope to residents in Castor and Northborough, who are currently embroiled in battles to prevent estates of 42 and 30 homes respectively.

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  • Last Updated: 29 February 2008 12:27 PM
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SokeBoy,

In A VERY crowded city centre!!! 29/02/2008 13:03:09
Great- even MORE homes crammed into inner Peterborough whilst some nice, middle-class commuter homes are to be built on the outskirts.

These people just don't get it- Peterborough won't become an 'Environment Capital' whilst they keep concreting over green space, especially in the city centre.

We will regret these decsions in the future.........
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initonit,

Peterborough 29/02/2008 13:44:47
Before building new homes, and town or city authority should take into account the number of empty/unused properties in the area - and make sure those redundant buildings are brought back into use. I'm sure there won't be enough of those to solve the whole problem, or anywhere near it - but every little helps.
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Natalie Doncaster-Hughes,

29/02/2008 14:54:33
Surely we should only be builing new homes if there really is a market for them. I am currently selling my home and have been told by local estate agents that the market is extremely slow at the moment and houses are taking much longer to sell.

There are still unsold new houses in Hampton, Sugar Way and other large sites so what is the point in building thousands more when the housing stock we currently have isn't selling due to a flattening of the market?

All that will happen is that we will end up with thousands of empty properties (remember the Parnwell fiasco several years ago?) and a weakening in the value of existing properties.

Apply some common sense - build enough houses each year to sustain the increasing population rather than flooding the market with thousands of new houses which take months to sell, followed by a huge upsurge in prices when the house-building firms decide it is not cost effective to keep building in the area and so very few houses are built for several years. Remember what happened after the original new townships were built in the late '80's!
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Natalie Doncaster-Hughes,

29/02/2008 15:02:26
One other point - I do hope that the infrastructure will be put in place before any new houses are built. Decent transport links and new roads will be essential if we are to have an extra 17,000 houses. All routes in to Peterborough are already gridlocked at rush hour and widening the Soke Parkway and the A15, although essential, has come too late!

It's all very well expecting people to use public transport but until it is made more reliable and accessible to everyone, people will keep using their cars despite the extortionate costs.

I implore the planning officers and local councellors to try and get it right this time and avoid a future crisis.
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29/02/2008 16:02:17
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waynesill,

29/02/2008 16:20:11
'City must build 17,000 more homes - and two townships'
Why? when homes that have already been built lie empty. Who is making all the money out of this certainly the landowners that sold the "swathe of land" see a vast profit from selling high quality farm land to be turned into high priced cheaply built houses by the many home builders these days. These townships are okay in theory but soon turn into rundown neglected areas. Peterborough's infrastructure needs to be sorted out first and foremost as it is crumbling at the moment with temporary fix jobs carried out on a continual basis (town bridge for starters) More leisure facilities are required now before more houses should be considered together with extra schools, now whose great idea was it to bulldoze three!.
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Jazzacorgi,

Peterborough 29/02/2008 16:44:31
What a great idea!at least the immigrants that are left overseas will have somewhere to live!yet more strain on our shambolic city!!!
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