Cambridge is one of the most important cities in Europe. It's receiving huge investment, seeing massive growth, and is struggling to keep up with demand.
We've spoken to many household-name businesses and start-ups alike that are having to leave Cambridge for other parts of Britain or even other countries, because they can't get office/lab space, and their employees can't get homes with less than a 1.5hr commute.
Located next to Cambridge—which itself has produced more Nobel Prizes than all of France—on the way to Felixstowe, packed full of brilliant, hard-working, passionate people, Haverhill is very strategically placed.
The truth is, we're not the only ones that have noticed. The Greater Cambridge Development Corporation plans to build 150k homes including along the A1307, reaching all the way to the outskirts of Haverhill. There won't be a new reservoir, a new hospital, or a new train station. There will just be new cookie-cutter homes to share the same roads, with zero consideration of what the people of Suffolk need or want.
And combined, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and North Essex have been tasked with building 340k homes in the next 25 years—again, these will be delivered piecemeal, without infrastructure, without central planning, and without including Haverhill in the story.
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