Housing minister dismisses prize-winning garden city proposals

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The housing minister has given a withering response to Urbed's Wolfson Prize-winning plan, comparing it to New Labour's 'failed examples of top-down eco-towns'. Brandon Lewis said that the garden city proposal, which scooped the £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize last week, would create 'resentment' and 'urban sprawl', and had no chance of being built. Manchester-based urban design consultancy Urbed won the prize with its proposal to double the size of existing towns and cities in England by building on green belt and using garden city principles.