Work has been completed on new council homes in Cambridge.

The final site, which forms part of the City Council's strategy to use under-utilised parcels of land for new council homes, has been completed by Cambridge Investment Partnership at Markham Close.

Markham Close is located in the Kings Hedges ward of the city and features five one bedroom council rent flats with off street parking. Designed by architect, Rock Townsend the homes are energy efficient and include a number of sustainable features such as photovoltaic solar panels, reduced water consumption and a reduction in carbon emissions.

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Cllr Richard Johnson, Executive Councillor for Housing for Cambridge City Council and CIP board member, said: "Markham Close marks the completion of our city-wide strategy to use parcels of land that offer the potential to be developed to provide much needed council homes for local residents. As a partnership we have been able to progress five of these garage sites which have created 15 new council homes in the past six months.

"Cambridge Investment Partnership is continuing to build new private sale and council housing on a number of sites across the city as part of its commitment to deliver more than 500 new council homes to the city by March 2022. The council will also continue to look for under-utilised pieces of land to support its new council housing developments."

Cambridge Investment Partnership is an equal partnership between Cambridge City Council and Hill Investment Partnerships.