{"id":139834,"date":"2023-10-12T23:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/labours-supposedly-bold-new-towns-idea-has-been-tried-before-and-it-failed-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:24:14","slug":"labours-supposedly-bold-new-towns-idea-has-been-tried-before-and-it-failed-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/labours-supposedly-bold-new-towns-idea-has-been-tried-before-and-it-failed-simon-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s supposedly bold \u2018new towns\u2019 idea has been tried before. And it failed | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThese vast sums should be spent improving our \u2018second-tier\u2019 cities \u2013 not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural southKeir Starmer\u2019s speech to the Labour party conference was good. It was that of an expectant prime minister, of sonorous phrases and few promises. Then came two words that fell flat: new towns. There would be \u201cLabour new towns\u201d, whatever they are, referred to in later briefing as in the south, on the \u201cM1 corridor\u201d, brooking no local opposition and \u201cthe equivalent of five Milton Keynes.\u201d Land for them would be purchased compulsorily at a knock-down price. It sounded ominously like the HS2 of housing.The best bit of gossip out of Liverpool was that the bedside reading of the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is Paul Johnson\u2019s excellent bestseller, Follow the Money. Reeves should turn to page 231 and share it with Starmer. It discusses the curse of Britain\u2019s geographical inequality, and the significance of Boris Johnson\u2019s \u201cdefining mission\u201d, levelling up. In his speech Starmer dismissed levelling up with a jeer. He later regurgitated what seemed the result of a good lunch with the construction lobby: five Milton Keynes sprawling across the south-east and an end to local democracy in planning. Housing policy was to be conducted from Westminster. Eat your heart out, north of England. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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