Creating communities
We build only in areas where our homes can be delivered in tandem with our quality landlord and community services.
The people in our neighbourhoods have great potential, so we’re committed to supporting and investing in them. Our community work focuses on creating opportunities to change lives by investing in local people and businesses. We want everyone to recognise the impact they can make, whether that’s large or small, so they can make a difference in their community too.
Partnerships are helping us to deliver valuable services to those communities that are often cut off. Working together, we’re able to bring support right into the heart of communities throughout Peterborough and the surrounding area – from work clubs to advice for new parents, we’re here to help people take charge of their futures.
There are three key principles to our approach:
- Improve employability and skills
- Promote health and wellbeing
- Inspire the next generation.
Download our Community Investment Strategy - Our Approach to Community Investment.
We’re actively seeking new partners who can help us increase the services we provide in the areas we’re delivering new affordable homes. If you’d like to work with us, please email community@crosskeyshomes.co.uk.
Building new homes
We will deliver 1,000 homes over the next three years. From large developments in Milton Keynes, Peterborough and Huntingdonshire to smaller rural schemes in Cambridgeshire villages, we’re committed to providing quality homes that people can afford to live in.
From families looking for affordable rented homes to young people trying to get a foot on the housing ladder through shared ownership, we believe that everyone deserves to live in happy, healthy communities. That’s why we invest in building new homes in the places that people want to live.
With a strong pipeline already in place, we’re proactively seeking new opportunities to acquire land, enter into new partnerships and find innovative solutions to build quality homes within a one hour drive of Peterborough City Centre.
If you want to discuss how we can work together whether through a joint venture, land sale, S106 or in a new way that suits you, please email our Development team.
Take a look at our flagship development, Indigo, where we are delivering 315 new affordable homes in the heart of Peterborough.
Working collaboratively
We have an ambitious development strategy that recognises that we can achieve more together. That’s why we collaborate with a wide range of partners to help us deliver even more homes and opportunities that change lives. We’re proud to be a sought-after partner of choice for organisations to provide new homes and deliver essential services.
The Tilia Community Living joint venture will see us working together on 15 key sites across the region over five years. The innovative structure helps us to minimise risk whilst using this partnership as an investment vehicle to generate and continue to invest profits made into more new affordable homes for Cambridgeshire.
Created in 2016, Medesham Homes is a joint venture partnership with Peterborough City Council using Right to Buy receipts to increase the supply of affordable homes in the city. Visit the Medesham Homes website for more details. While the Grange Lane (Littleport) LLP is a joint venture (JV) between four prominent housing associations operating in the east of England; Flagship Group, Hyde Group, Longhurst Group and CKH. Together, we will deliver new homes for sale and rent on a strategic site in Littleport, Cambridgeshire.
Our Chief Executive, Claire Higgins, is Chair of Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. This group of 12 housing associations that are working together to significantly increase the number of affordable homes in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority area and promote long-term investment in local communities. Supported by the National Housing Federation, the ambition is to build 40,000 additional affordable homes over the next 20 years, representing an investment of £4bn. For more information visit the Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough webpage.
We are proud members of PlaceShapers, a network of more than 100 like-minded housing associations in the UK. Run by members, for members and who are committed to a diverse, values-driven housing association sector. Our Chief Executive is PlaceShapers' Vice Chair. For more information visit the PlaceShapers website.