Member

Briefly, there are proposals such as that from the Built Environment Committee for the New Towns Taskforce to be turned into a new towns agency—not just a unit in the ministry that works with Homes England but something that has a long-term existence and an identity of its own—to support the new towns programmes. In addition, there are issues that it is important for us to clarify before we get into the detailed question of which new towns will be among the first to get building on the ground. For example, it seems that the question of the relationship between the homes expected to be built in a new town by a new town development corporation and the housing needs and requirements in that area is one that the New Towns Taskforce and the Built Environment Committee have said needed to be clarified, but the Government have not done so yet.