Huntingdonshire housing development and new homes
Searching for housing development in Huntingdonshire or new homes in Huntingdonshire? Over thirty years the government starting point is about 37,110 homes here — +44% on existing stock — with no matching commitment to water, grid, surgeries, schools or transport.
The government wants to build 1,237 homes a year in Huntingdonshire. That annual figure, sustained for thirty years, is 37,110 homes on the 84,252 dwellings already in the area.
There are 54 towns and villages in Huntingdonshire. That is an average of 22.9 new homes a year across every settlement — about 687 each over thirty years if the annual figure were spread evenly.
Infrastructure under pressure in Huntingdonshire
What we've got now
14,430
hours of sewage spills in Huntingdonshire in 2025
Worst at Ramsey Water Recycling Centre
2,063
patients per GP in Huntingdonshire
4
schools over capacity in Huntingdonshire
1,550 MW
still waiting to connect to the grid
At Eaton Socon
23.4s
delay per mile on A-roads in Cambridgeshire
Worst on the A1309
Now they want another 37,110 homes here.
We can stop this
Another 37,110 homes for Huntingdonshire, with no infrastructure to carry them. We want building concentrated in fewer, larger places with schools, health, water, sewage and transport built in — not another estate on the edge of every village.
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New homes by town and village in Huntingdonshire
Open a settlement for local housing context, infrastructure strain, and nearby planning applications.
- Abbots Ripton
- Abbotsley
- Alconbury
- Alconbury Weald
- Alconbury Weston
- Bluntisham and Colne
- Brampton
- Buckden
- Bury
- Catworth
- Earith
- Ellington
- Elton
- Farcet
- Fenstanton
- Folksworth
- Glatton
- Godmanchester
- Great Gransden
- Great Paxton
- Great Staughton
- Great Stukeley
- Hail Weston
- Hemingford Abbots
- Hemingford Grey
- Hilton
- Holme
- Houghton
- Huntingdon
- Kimbolton
- Little Paxton
- Little Stukeley
- Needingworth
- Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny
- Pidley
- Ramsey
- Ramsey Forty Foot
- Ramsey Mereside
- Ramsey St Mary's
- Sawtry
- Somersham
- Spaldwick
- St Ives
- St Neots
- Stilton
- Tilbrook
- Upwood
- Warboys
- Waresley
- West Perry
- Wistow
- Wyton
- Yaxley
- Yelling
Questions about housing in Huntingdonshire
- How many new homes in Huntingdonshire over 30 years?
- The government starting point is about 1,237 homes a year — roughly 37,110 over thirty years if sustained (+44% on the 84,252 dwellings already here).
- Where would new homes in Huntingdonshire go?
- Without a different pattern, growth lands as edge-of-settlement estates across the 54 towns and villages listed below — each too small to fund strategic infrastructure.
- How do I track housing development in Huntingdonshire?
- Use the planning applications on this page and the full planning tracker for medium and large schemes, then respond on the council portal and sign the Stop Urban Sprawl petition.
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