bpha plays a leading role in assisting key worker employers by providing practical assistance and advice on affordable housing for key workers through Keyhomes East.
Keyhomes East is seen as the leading key worker and intermediate housing specialist in the Eastern Region.
As a leading member of the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire Key Worker Employer Consortiums, we believe that working closely with key worker employers is crucial to the success of our role as one of the Government's Keyworker Living Programme zone agents and the delivery of key worker housing. As a zone agent we share best practice between consortia.
Kala Nobbs
Assistant Director Cambridgeshire County Council
Chair, Cambridge Employers' Consortium
Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire Employers' consortium
In 2003, bpha helped to fund a major research project undertaken by the Cambridgeshire Sub-Regional Affordable Housing Group into the future demand for key worker housing throughout the Cambridgeshire sub-region and, as a result of the findings, set up Keyhomes East.
Since then, Keyhomes East has helped 300 key workers to buy their own home through the Government's Starter Home Initiative, which the Keyworker Living Programme, launched in March 2004, still builds on.
bpha has been at the forefront of key worker developments since 1997 when it developed a selection of homes offered at below market rents for public sector staff in Milton Keynes - the first scheme of its kind in the country.
It subsequently built 76 flats for Bedford General Hospital NHS Trust alongside 34 affordable rent and shared ownership homes, and a 70-place children's day nursery on the same site. bpha has also built 33 homes at Lower Cambourne for key workers living or working in South Cambridgeshire or Cambridge city.
The Bedfordshire Employers' Consortium was launched in 2004 following the success of the Cambridgeshire Consortium.
For more information, please contact Roy Hind, Business Development Manager on 01234 221334.