The government’s promise of 1.5 million new homes over the parliamentary term was reinforced in the Prime Minister’s ‘reset’ and last week in the new National Planning Policy Framework.

Central to this thinking, alongside planning policy changes, is a fresh wave of new towns. A taskforce has been set up with the remit to recommend locations for “large-scale communities” of at least 10,000 homes each that could “play a significant role in the government’s plans for economic growth as well as offering new homes on an ambitious scale”.