It is known that the computation of strong homology groups of locally compact second countable spaces reduces to the computation of higher derived limits of inverse systems of abelian groups indexed by $\omega^\omega$. The computation of these higher derived limits is facilitated in part by a Ramsey-theoretic partition hypothesis. In general this partition hypothesis can be forced starting from a suitable large cardinal assumption. We show that if one places regularity assumptions on cells in the partition, then the conclusion of the partition hypothesis followed directly from a large cardinal hypothesis. This points to the possibility of a variant of strong homology whose properties are less sensitive to set theoretic assumptions.