Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 73786
New Towns: Construction
Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 9 September 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the potential cost to (a) the public purse and (b) private developers of constructing 12 new towns.
Answer
Matthew PennycookThe government has tasked the New Towns Taskforce, an independent expert advisory panel chaired by Sir Michael Lyons, with developing recommendations to ministers on suitable locations for new towns, as well as how to fund and deliver them. The Taskforce ...
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