New garden cities must offer genuinely affordable homes says charity

Town and Country Planning Association says Ebenezer Howard vision behind Welwyn and Letchworth must apply to Ebbsfleet

The charity set up by the visionary founder of the garden city movement, Ebenezer Howard, has told the government it must guarantee affordable homes in four new towns if they are to be considered garden cities.

Speaking out after planning minister Nick Boles admitted none of the 15,000 homes planned in a new garden city at Ebbsfleet, Kent, need to be classed as affordable and the government would not set targets on any other housing developments, Hugh Ellis, head of policy at the Town and Country Planning Association, said the majority of homes in a new garden city must be affordable with at least half of those for social rent.

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