{"id":146665,"date":"2024-08-04T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T07:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ignore-the-livids-of-tunbridge-wells-and-build-homes-but-build-them-well-rowan-moore\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:09:42","slug":"ignore-the-livids-of-tunbridge-wells-and-build-homes-but-build-them-well-rowan-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ignore-the-livids-of-tunbridge-wells-and-build-homes-but-build-them-well-rowan-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well | Rowan Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLabour\u2019s plans to ease the housing crisis should focus on quality as much as quantityThat didn\u2019t take long. Last week, less than a month since Labour won the general election, the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner stood up in the House of Commons and made some of the most ambitious pronouncements about housing since her party\u2019s government of 1945 \u2013 1.5 million new homes in the term of this parliament, new towns, more social\u00a0housing.Local authorities will be obliged to set ambitious targets for numbers of homes. The green belts around the country\u2019s cities, a hugely successful planning concept that has turned in some places into an agent of suffocation, can, Rayner said, sometimes be relaxed. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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