Northstowe, located in Cambridgeshire, is a UK’s new town which has been in development for over six years. The plan is to build more than 10,000 homes and provide accommodation for 26,000 people. There are already three schools and a pub, with more facilities set to follow but according to the BBC, there still are no shops or GP surgery available. Labour has made a pledge to build 1.5 million homes over the first five years since it gains power. At the party’s conference, Angela Rayner, the Housing Secretary, announced her target of building the biggest wave of council housing in generation, while Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled the “new homes accelerator”, a taskforce aimed at accelerating stalled housing sites.
The proposed changes to planning regulations are currently what Labour is concentrating on the most. Reintroducing housing targets for councils and making it easier for developers to
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