From housebuilding to town-building

Posted Posted in Planning, land, and housing policy, Sustainable development, Transport, mobility, walking and cycling

Report from our event at Labour Conference: New Towns. Old Challenges. How do we create new places which are popular and durable, viable and fair? ‘Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by […]

It’s time for Britain to become a nation of townbuilders

Posted Posted in Planning, land, and housing policy, Sustainable development

Labour has often repeated its ambitions to build a generation of New Towns to deliver 1.5 million new homes. What might have escaped most people’s attention, however, was what these towns might actually be and look like. After all, there is a big difference between successful historic extensions to cities, such as Edinburgh’s New Town […]