Martin Ford 27 October 2025

Councils key to New Towns success, say peers

Councils must have a key role to make a success of the New Towns programme, peers have urged.

A warning was also issued over the threat posed by the parlous the state of the planning system in a report published today by the House of Lords Built Environment Committee.

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