While international analysts pick over the combatants’ ambitions in the Iran conflict, Smart Growth UK has been looking at what the Government imagines it’s achieving with its “new towns” policy. Those inverted commas are significant. Our report examines the New Towns Taskforce recommended sites for 12 “new towns” and finds them to be a bizarre mixture of the greenfield sprawl […]
Cities of the plain – but it’s not so plain
If you want a picture of what’s really going on in Britain, local papers often provide a better guide than most of the stuff in the national press. Take a couple of last week’s stories. In South Shields, volunteers at a food-bank were horrified, but not surprised, when a mother staggered in with two small children and collapsed from hunger. […]