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Labour’s main housing promise is to build 1.5 million homes if it wins the general election. His plan includes a promise to build new cities, but what will it take to fulfill it?
“I think the idea of new cities is very gripping,” Robert Boothsays the Guardian’s social correspondent Hannah Moore. “To build real new settlements that are big enough to have all the infrastructure, all the character, all the sense of place of a city or even a small town, not just another housing estate.”
However, it is not clear how Labor will achieve this policy.
“The level of detail that Labor has put out on this is poor,” says Booth. “We don’t know where they might be, we don’t know much about how they will be funded or delivered and how long it will take to do that.”
Booth explains how Labor plans to change planning laws to allow more buildings, including on some green space. He reports from Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, where the former greenfield site has already been zoned for over 2,000 new homes. He meets with residents who are worried about the destruction of nature and the loss of identity of the villages there. He also meets tenants who are struggling. Will Labour’s social housing policy help?
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