Lord Rogers of Riverside has attacked proposals to build
up to 40 new garden cities on the greenbelt as "a ridiculous concept"
and has called instead for the developments to be stitched into existing cities
using derelict sites. It follows cross-party consensus that garden cities could
solve the deepening housing crisis. But
the leading architect and Labour peer said he was saddened by the re-emergence of
ideas to build several million new homes on green field sites and proposed
instead to build major new developments in the Croydon and northern cities such
as Manchester and Hull. Government projections suggest the UK needs six million
new homes in the next 30 years. Read more on the Guardian website.
