Gravesham Community Investment Partnership is a partnership between Gravesham Borough Council and The Hill Group, established to find suitable locations and develop sites for new council-owned homes in the Gravesham borough.
The aim is to reduce Gravesham Borough Council’s Housing Register, which is currently over 1,000 households, providing new, quality homes for local people.
“We have long-held ambitions to build hundreds of new council homes in order to provide real social housing for those with demonstrable roots in Gravesham, thus reducing the number of people on our Housing Register.”
“Bringing a specialist private sector housebuilder with investment, commercial, and financial expertise on board will greatly accelerate the progress we want to achieve.”
Cllr John Burden, Leader of Gravesham Borough Council
The partnership follows a similar successful partnership model that was started in 2017 between Cambridge City Council and the Hill Group, the Cambridge Investment Partnership (CIP)
Together, the partnership is working to deliver a minimum of 1,700 new homes over the next 10 years, 1,000 of which are affordable homes. The CIP is delivering Cambridge’s first Passivhaus-accredited council homes, which deliver the highest levels of energy efficiency and airtightness by following rigorous construction methods.
“We are working closely together to expand the delivery of affordable homes for local communities in the area.”
Andy Hill, Group Chief Executive of The Hill Group