Cambridge housing development and new homes
Searching for housing development in Cambridge or new homes in Cambridge? Over thirty years the government starting point is about 32,550 homes here — +56% on existing stock — with no matching commitment to water, grid, surgeries, schools or transport.
The government wants to build 1,085 homes a year in Cambridge. That annual figure, sustained for thirty years, is 32,550 homes on the 58,641 dwellings already in the area.
Cambridge is treated as a single built-up area in the settlement data, so we do not quote a per-settlement average here.
Infrastructure under pressure in Cambridge
What we've got now
0
hours of sewage spills in Cambridge in 2025
Worst at Cambridge Riverside 187 CSO
2,315
patients per GP in Cambridge
6
schools over capacity in Cambridge
1,044 MW
still waiting to connect to the grid
At Burwell
23.4s
delay per mile on A-roads in Cambridgeshire
Worst on the A1309
Now they want another 32,550 homes here.
We can stop this
Another 32,550 homes for Cambridge, with no infrastructure to carry them. We want building concentrated in fewer, larger places with schools, health, water, sewage and transport built in — not another estate on the edge of every village.
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New homes by town and village in Cambridge
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Questions about housing in Cambridge
- How many new homes in Cambridge over 30 years?
- The government starting point is about 1,085 homes a year — roughly 32,550 over thirty years if sustained (+56% on the 58,641 dwellings already here).
- Where would new homes in Cambridge go?
- Without a different pattern, growth lands as edge-of-settlement estates across the 1 towns and villages listed below — each too small to fund strategic infrastructure.
- How do I track housing development in Cambridge?
- Use the planning applications on this page and the full planning tracker for medium and large schemes, then respond on the council portal and sign the Stop Urban Sprawl petition.
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