It’s time to deliver communities that work for those who live and work in and around them

By Jonathan Kendall 2023-11-30T07:00:00

The arrival of thousands of new homes and jobs alongside existing communities can sound daunting to existing residents. But developments such as Waterbeach and Oxford North, which support the thriving knowledge economies of Cambridge and Oxford, can enhance lives across the board, writes Jonathan Kendall of Fletcher Priest, masterplanner for ...

The attitudes of the UK’s main political parties towards urban development have become markedly different in recent weeks. Cross-party consensus, badly needed to achieve long-term change, is slow to create and hard to rebuild.

We have seen the government pull the rug from under much of HS2, one of the largest infrastructure projects in decades. Meanwhile, the Labour Party has made bold claims around delivering more homes through an ambitious series of new town projects.

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