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By Carl Brown2023-10-10T16:01:00
Labour’s plan to reform planning and build new towns draws positive response
Housing and construction bodies have broadly welcomed Kier Starmer’s plan to build the “next generation of new towns”.
The Labour leader, in a speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool this afternoon, pledged to get Britain’s future back” by building 1.5 million homes over the next five years, “bulldozing” the planning system and constructing a wave of new settlements across England.
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