With the publication of the New Towns Task Force report and accompanying Government Response, we examine some of the key challenges to delivery that will need to be addressed in this ambitious new Programme and how the Government are looking to respond.

With the New Towns Taskforce soon to report, attention must turn to how these ambitious projects navigate planning. Local Plans are too slow and constrained, while national policy risks being too top down. Rob Smith explores realistic delivery routes, from Supplementary Plans to LDOs and Development Corporations, arguing for a streamlined but accountable system to make new towns viable in practice.

This week marks the closing date on the consultation on the Government proposals for reforms to plan making in England (at midnight on...

Think piece by Jim Fox, Associate.