Cambridge City Council is to explore a community self-provision scheme on land that it owns in Orchard Park. Potential individual owners will be invited to plan and design the scheme, working with the Council and a development partner.

This innovative approach to housing was approved last Monday at a meeting of my council committee, the Strategy & Resources Scrutiny Committee.

Community self-provision is different from self-build schemes, in that people work together with a professional developer rather than do the various building tasks themselves. One of the advantages of people working together on a big site like Orchard Park means that community facilities can be incorporated into new schemes, thus hopefully avoiding some of the mistakes made in other housing developments.

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