Peterborough is included in the government’s London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough growth area to provide approximately 25,000 new homes and around 24,600 new jobs by 2021, to help meet the UK’s housing shortage and generate further economic expansion.

Only a limited amount of this growth can be accommodated within Peterborough’s current urban areas. Therefore in order to achieve and deliver the scale of development required Peterborough will need to expand.

A series of independent studies have identified the south west of Peterborough as an appropriate direction for some of this new growth.