Oral Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
“Whether the number of houses recommended by the New Towns Taskforce will be in addition to the housing targets set in the National Policy Planning Framework.”
Tabled: 25 February 2025Answered: 3 March 2025
Asked by
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
Not least because we will only begin construction of the next generation of new towns towards the end of this Parliament, the Government have been clear that they will deliver over and above the targets produced by the standard method. We will, of course, keep under review how the taskforce’s forthcoming recommendations on new towns interact with housing targets across England.