Government gives go-ahead to new garden villages
PA/ GETTY The government has approved an initiative that has the potential to deliver 200,000 properties
Ministers have backed 14 bids across the country that will develop new communities with between 1,500 and 10,000 properties. Larger scale garden towns in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Taunton in Somerset and Harlow and Gilston, on the Essex-Herts border, have also been signed off by the Government. The plans are expected to create a series of new communities with green spaces, good transport links and high quality affordable homes to help tackle the country's housing crisis.
Some £6 million in funding will go towards developing the new villages, which could generate 48,000 new homes, while £1.4 million has been earmarked for the towns.
Locally led garden towns and villages have enormous potential Housing minister Gavin Barwell
Combined with seven garden towns and cities already announced, the initiative has the potential to deliver 200,000 properties, the Government said. Homes are already being built in Aylesbury, Taunton, Bicester and Didcot in Oxfordshire, Basingstoke in Hampshire, Ebbsfleet in Kent, and north Northamptonshire.
GETTY Housing minister Gavin Barwell said the towns and villages have 'enormous potential'
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