It may have won £250,000 and one of the world’s most
prestigious awards, but a plan to build 3.5 million new homes by allowing 40
towns and cities to double in size has been almost immediately trashed by the
Government. Awarding the Wolfson Economics Prize, judges hailed the “bold and
daring solution” to the housing shortage with the creation of new garden
city-style suburbs. The plan foresaw green, walkable neighbourhoods served by
trams and public transport with one in five homes within the price range of
people on low incomes. For every plot developed, the same area would be
allocated for parks and gardens. But the Housing minister, Brandon Lewis, has
now condemned the scheme as “urban sprawl” that would build nothing other than
“resentment” among local people and has said the Government would have nothing
to do with it. “We do not intend to follow the failed example of top-down
eco-towns from the last administration,” Mr Lewis said. Read more on the
Independent website.
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