Housing

One of the rooms in the home, which led the tenants to have health issues

Mould infested home closed by council after family had 'breathing difficulties'

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Council plans to introduce further moving traffic enforcement in nine city areas

The meeting with Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook

Westminster Life: Building a sustainable Peterborough

The initiative aims to support UK mission to reduce energy bills, create green jobs, and advance climate action

Social housing in UK to have cleaner energy come new initiative

Seeing in the New Year

Westminster Life: Excited by what lies ahead this year

A tent in Peterborough

Council carries out rough sleeper count in Peterborough

Damaged ceilings, damp and poor ventilation are just some of the 2,000 issues uncovered.

Housing scheme uncovers 2,000 issues at city homes - including 'severe mould'

The Christmas Giving Tree is now located in Bewiched coffee shops in Fletton Quays.

Support Peterborough children in need through 'Christmas Giving Tree' scheme

Rachel Reeves poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual Autumn budget to Parliament (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

UK families to get free cash as Household Support Fund is extended

Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to give a speech at the Treasury in July 2024 (Photo: Jonathan Brady - Pool/Getty Images)

What to expect from Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first Autumn Budget

'Lifestyle inflation' is to blame, according to 4,000 adults

Fewer than one in 10 millennials have hit their financial goals

Lifeline scheme extended to help city residents hit by cost of living

Jess Phillips MP speaking at The Rally Against Violence Towards Women and Girls at Labour conference.

Minister says stopping VAWG should be everyone’s “core business”

The Local Plan consultation will allow people to have their say on how Peterborough is shaped for the future. Image: PCC

Consultation over plan to shape future of city 'paused' in light of changes

Peterborough needs to be more ambitious in bringing projects such as the Station Quarter (artist impression) to fruition.

Westminster Life: We need to be more ambitious about Peterborough’s future...

A poll of 2,000 adults uncovered the top 50 things that irritate people when they’re trying to get on with their day

These are life's top 50 biggest inconveniences
Life’s biggest inconveniences include queue-jumpers, poor Wi-Fi and boiler breakdowns, according to research.
Francesca Tuckey

Jackie Kennedy, is the only resident living in a 50-room care home after it closed down in 2023.

I live alone in abandoned care home - I feel like a "prisoner"

A poll of 500 adults who bought their first property have revealed their biggest regrets - including living in an area they do not love

First-time buyers reveal their biggest regrets

A house lies in ruins.

Footage shows house with front blown off after suspected gas explosion

Councillor Saqib Farooq, Peterborough First's Shadow cabinet member for Adults and Health.

Opnion: Our duty of care is what really matters

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

Hillary and Franco McManus Omaze Million Pound House London winners inside their new £5m home

'Best wedding present ever': Newlyweds win a £5m Omaze dream home

(Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Half of renters endure cold, damp or mould - despite record high rents

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

(Photos: Getty Images/LinkedIn)

I'm a mortgage expert - 9 pitfalls that first time buyers should avoid

People look at residential properties displayed for sale in the window of an estate agents' in London (Photo: ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Expert tips for first-time homebuyers as mortgages jump 61% in 5 years

Karen Bishop, 51, with her 2-year-old French bull dog Drew outside the Travelodge in Norwich.

Watch: Disabled gran has lived in hotel for 2 years after flat blaze
Watch as Karen discusses living in the Travelodge and how she hopes she will be able to return home soon.
Jessica Martin

(Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK city leaps into top 10 most expensive cities for expats

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Local Elections: Labour – the heartbeat of Peterborough

Residents of Stratford-upon-Avon are blighted by antisocial behaviour along South Green Drive and Cottage Lane, just a stones throw from Anne Hathaway's Cottage.

Watch: Drug gangs create misery on posh Shakespeare heritage street

Destiny Mitchell, 26, is homeless and has turned a bus stop into a temporary home on the Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Watch: Our home is a disused bus shelter...it's going to be demolished

The proposed look of the new apartments along Serpentine Lake.

Final sign-off for 'landmark' 60-bed retirement complex

Fenland District Council wants to get tough on properties being left empty.

Council uses tax to get tough on empty properties

Peterborough City Council

Housing, safeguarding and financial resilience among council's greatest concerns

Image shows feet on frosty ground

More support for rough sleepers through council’s extended cold weather provisio...

From left, Nick Carter, Service Director, Growth and Regeneration, Tom Hennessy, Head of Economic Growth Peterborough City Council & Chief Executive of Opportunity Peterborough, Jim Newton, Specialist Projects Lead, Tanya Meadows, Head of Skills and Employment, and Karen Lockwood, Head of Regeneration

New bid to attract investors to city

The money will be used to buy homes for homeless people in Peterborough

Peterborough council given £3 million to buy homes for homeless people in city

The St George's Hydrotherapy Pool has been filled in with rubble

Peterborough hydrotherapy users hope over Regional Pool future

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Emergency cold weather support available to rough sleepers

Property A before

Fenland District Council working to bring empty homes back into residential use

Concern has been voiced at the number of homes being built in Peterborough

Figures show increase in new homes being built

Barry has been given help to get off the streets and into a new home

Former homeless man tells how he went from living under a bush into a new home

Key Theatre is expected to reopen in time for panto season

Key Theatre closure - when it will reopen

Rough sleeper on a bench in a park.

Improving access to mental health services for rough sleepers in Fenland

Peterborough has a lot of green open space and waterways but new figures show that in three years 6.7 hectares was built on by developers.

Seven hectares of woodland and water lost to developers in three years

An aerial view of Hampton (image: Adobe).

Average Peterborough house price rose in June to £241,998

Homelessness charities have told Rishi Sunak they are deeply concerned the Government will fail to meet its target of ending rough sleeping in England by 2024 (image: PA).

147 households in Peterborough estimated to be homeless as children suffer

Council's budget gap to top £10m

A group of Ukrainian refugees meeting at the Almoners House in Peterborough Cathedral

Over £1m funding to help refugee resettlement in Peterborough set for approval

Bretton water park

Joy for families as Bretton Water Park to open in time for summer holidays

Friends, Families and Travellers charity is calling to tackle the accommodation crisis facing the community.

More than 100 Traveller caravans in Peterborough

King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the coronation on May 6, 2023. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire.

King Charles & Queen Camilla criticised over gender pay gap to staff

Another of the popular Cathedral Square markets will be in town this Saturday (June 3).

Craft and artisan market returns to Peterborough

This image show how the Green Technology Centre should appear once built in the grounds of Peterborough College.

£12 million Green Tech Centre at college secures go ahead

Election 21 Kirsty Knight councillor for Orton Waterville

Local elections 23: housing does not have to cost the earth