{"id":194225,"date":"2025-10-12T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:40:15","slug":"housing-for-newmarkets-horse-racing-apprentices-approved-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194225\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing for Newmarket’s horse racing apprentices approved"},"content":{"rendered":"

New accommodation for young apprentices at a town’s racing school is set to be built.<\/p>\n

East Cambridgeshire District Council has approved plans submitted by the British Racing School for 24 en-suite bedrooms to be built off Snailwell Road in Newmarket, Suffolk.<\/p>\n

The Newmarket Housing Trust said it wanted to create “secure and affordable” accommodation for 16 to 18-year-olds entering apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, planning documents submitted to the council said: “The Newmarket Housing Trust has identified the need for affordable, well-located accommodation as an urgent priority.”<\/p>\n

The plans were supported by the Newmarket Trainers Group and The Jockey Club Estates.<\/p>\n

The Newmarket Trainers Group said there was an “acute need” for safe housing for young apprentices who could be “vulnerable” due to living away from home for the first time.<\/p>\n

The planning documents said<\/a>: “With over 6,500 people employed within the horse racing industry in Newmarket, housing shortages and rising living costs present significant challenges, particularly for young apprentices.<\/p>\n

“The Newmarket Housing Trust has identified the need for affordable, well-located accommodation as an urgent priority, particularly for young people entering the workforce,” it said.<\/p>\n

The Jockey Club Estates added that affordable housing for the racing industry workforce was “essential if Newmarket is to retain its position as a global centre for racing excellence.”<\/p>\n

Plans for the new site were approved by the council, subject to a series of conditions, including that development of the new student accommodation had to begin within three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New accommodation for young apprentices at a town’s racing school is set to be built. East Cambridgeshire District…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-194225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}