new towns act 2017?

摘要

More than 70 years on from the passage into law of the New Towns Act 1946, the UK is confronting large-scale town and country planning tasks, many of which echo those that our grandparents faced in 1946. We, too, have an acute shortage of housing, not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of decent quality, being well located for work and offering the chance of a fulfilling life. While the central areas of many old towns and cities have been regenerated, we still have vast swathes of damaged and decaying suburbs in which people are just managing to survive. We also have great population pressures-partly because of a surge in the birth rate; partly because many of us are living longer; partly because our relationships do not hold together; and partly because there are high levels of net in-migration into the UK each year.