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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.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.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.
Ministers have applied the garden cities label to plans to build at least 60,000 homes across four new towns, but the prospectus for garden cities, launched last week by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, only said that local areas "may wish to consider" mixed tenure homes which were "affordable for ordinary people".Ministers have applied the garden cities label to plans to build at least 60,000 homes across four new towns, but the prospectus for garden cities, launched last week by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, only said that local areas "may wish to consider" mixed tenure homes which were "affordable for ordinary people".
In what will be interpreted as a significant attack on a government policy which has been heavily informed by the TCPA's work, Ellis said "genuinely affordable housing for all budgets" was essential for the new towns to be considered garden cities, comparable with Letchworth and Welwyn which were founded to Howard's principles in the early part of the 20th century.In what will be interpreted as a significant attack on a government policy which has been heavily informed by the TCPA's work, Ellis said "genuinely affordable housing for all budgets" was essential for the new towns to be considered garden cities, comparable with Letchworth and Welwyn which were founded to Howard's principles in the early part of the 20th century.
Ellis said: "We urge the government to make the most of the opportunity that garden cities present to address the ever escalating housing crisis across the UK, and to ensure that all of the key principles are embedded into proposals for garden cities, so that local authorities can deliver high quality, sustainable and inclusive communities that will make a real difference."Ellis said: "We urge the government to make the most of the opportunity that garden cities present to address the ever escalating housing crisis across the UK, and to ensure that all of the key principles are embedded into proposals for garden cities, so that local authorities can deliver high quality, sustainable and inclusive communities that will make a real difference."