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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Neil Lancefield

First-time buyers to benefit from 40,000 new homes on brownfield railway land

The Government has launched a property company to oversee the release of brownfield sites on surplus railway land to enable tens of thousands of new homes to be built.

Platform4 will ensure up to 40,000 homes are built over the next decade, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.

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