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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Noah Vickers

Business group urges Government to build new town inside London boundary

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer have pledged to oversee the development of a new generation of ‘new towns’ - (PA Archive)

Calls for the Government to build at least one new town inside the Greater London boundary have been issued by a major business group.

BusinessLDN argues that the capital could serve as the perfect “test bed for the new towns policy, given it has the political framework, infrastructure links and range of potential sites needed to establish new settlements at speed”.

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