Key Communities offers a strong combined development pipeline.

The lead partner, bpha, was granted its highest ever allocation through the Housing Corporation's Approved Development Programme for 2006-08. The £41 million grant, coupled with an extra £102 million provided by private funders and other partners, is enabling Key Communities to build more than 1,200 new affordable homes each year across the east of England.

The Housing Corporation has also selected the bpha-led Cambridgeshire Partnerships to deliver affordable housing on three key strategic sites near Cambridge city through the Cambridge Challenge.

In addition, bpha has completed its Challenge Fund 2 programme, won in 2004 in a competition sponsored by the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships.

A total of 537 affordable homes for rent and shared ownership have been built on 24 sites in Milton Keynes and Peterborough, half of them for key workers to assist public sector recruitment and retention. The programme has been built with the WAVE timber panel system, giving significant advantages in terms of construction cost and speed. The programme has established bpha as a major developing RSL in Milton Keynes where it now has a pipeline of a further 1,200 new affordable homes.

Elsewhere in the eastern region, Key Communities partners are making an invaluable contribution towards affordable housing provision in areas where house prices are increasing at an alarming level, for example, on key sites in Ipswich, Sudbury and Haverhill where Suffolk Housing Society is working with major national, regional and local house builders.

bpha also has extensive experience of planning and delivering major settlements that require long-term partnership working.

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