Housing

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Contact the Council

Telephone: 01353-665555

Housing in East Cambridgeshire

East Cambridgeshire District Council transferred its housing stock and the housing register to Hereward Housing in 1993. Go to Sanctuary Hereward's web site to find out more.

However, the Council's Housing Service still has responsibility for the following services:

Homelessness
Affordable housing
Housing advice

You may also find the following useful:

Home-Link

Home-Link is a new scheme offering more choice to housing register applicants across East Cambridgeshire and six neighbouring authorities. Homelink incorporates the Council's housing register. Home-Link choice based lettings (CBL) offers greater flexibility for applicants allowing them to choose properties from across all authority areas.

If you want to apply for council or housing association homes you should do this through the Home-Link scheme.

Allocations Policy

Homes are let according to the Council's Allocations Policy - you can view a copy of this policy using the link provided at the bottom of this page.

Shared Ownership Housing

If you are interested in part rent, part buy, shared ownership or Homebuy you should first contact the zone agent, Orbit first step. Orbit manage the application process for a range of low cost home ownership and discounted market rent products developed to make home ownership more affordable and help you get a foot on the property ladder, Orbit HomeBuy Agents provide a one stop shop service to people interested in any of the HomeBuy products within Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

For more information and details of how to apply visit www.orbithomebuyagents.co.uk

Latest Update on the Housing Market

The Strategic Housing Market Assessment team compiles a quarterly bulletin on the housing market for the whole of the Cambridge sub-region. The latest version can be viewed at http://www.cambridgeshirehorizons.co.uk/documents/hsgbulletin/Edition_6.pdf