New Towns: Construction
Commons · Question 73786 · Tabled 1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 9 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
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
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 9 Sep 2025
The 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 ...