Down the garden path

摘要

For many years the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has been lobbying successive governments to champion the promotion and delivery of large-scale garden cities as part of a holistic response to solving the UK housing supply crisis. The previous coalition government brought forward a prospectus encouraging potential garden cities of 10,000 dwellings or more. The challenge with such schemes is that they are likely to take over 10 years to assemble and plan to the point of delivery, and incur at least £10om in fees and related promotional costs. Against the current uncertain planning backdrop for such schemes in the UK this clearly invokes risk and a scale of investment which few private sector firms could contemplate.