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Going spare: How to deal with under-occupancy

The UK is in the grip of a housing crisis. This is nothing new; over the course of the second world war the UK lost almost half a million homes to a combination of the Blitz and doodlebug attacks. Add...

Labour's New Towns: Back to the numbers game?

New towns were invented in Britain, and the concept has since spread across the globe. Many, if not all, of the original motivations for building them are still with us today, and recently the concept has come back into vogue...

Labour's New Towns: Building communities

In planning to build five new towns, shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds has an opportunity to spark a vital connection to the future from Labour’s past.

The postwar new towns borrowed from an Edwardian environmental tradition but were essentially a Labour...

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