For some the words ‘new town’ make the mind’s eye picture concrete carbuncles, others a bygone atomic-age dream of collective living. But decades after Milton Keynes, Stevenage and Bracknell were sprung from the earth in the wake of World War II, looking to our past could soothe the UK’s very modern housing crisis. Does our salvation lie in new towns?
Chris Curtis, who wants to be the Labour MP for Milton Keynes North, believes new towns are a chance to provide hundreds of thousands of affordable new homes – but also communities. Along with the homes, it’s an opportunity to build infrastructure like schools, GP surgeries and modern transport networks.
