London needs to build a new town due to ‘huge housing need’

Tom Copley, London’s deputy mayor for housing, said: “The scale of London’s housing need and the challenges facing delivery mean we need to think radically about where the homes of the future will come from, including where we can create additional new towns in and around the capital.”

According to the government, its “new generation” of new towns will not only comprise “large-scale new communities built on greenfield land and separated from other nearby settlements”, but will also include “a larger number of urban extensions and urban regeneration schemes”.

A spokesperson from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, said: “Demand for housing in London is high and we have already taken steps to support mayor Sadiq Khan and London boroughs in accelerating housing delivery, by launching a New Homes Accelerator, providing the city with £150m through the Brownfield Infrastructure and Land Fund and by bringing forward strategic sites for development.”