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Representation ID: 55649

Received: 05/10/2020

Respondent: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Sustainability & Transformation Partnership

Agent: No. 6 Developments

The acknowledgement that in order to be genuinely affordable the provision of affordable housing
must be informed by the context of local rent levels, house prices and local incomes is welcomed.
The average house price in Cambridge is 13 to 14 times that of the average annual household
income, meaning that housing in Cambridge is unaffordable for the majority of workers,
especially those on lower to middle incomes and as such genuinely affordable housing linked to
incomes rather than market values should be encouraged.
In line with our published housing needs evidence (shared with the Council as part of our
response to the Issues & Options consultation, CUH wishes to encourage the Council to consider
housing tenure types suitable to meet the needs of Hospital and other NHS workers within the
development.