Clegg announces scheme to build three new garden cities

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The deputy Prime Minister nick Clegg has announced a plan to build three new garden cities, each with more than 15,000 homes to ease down the “chronic” housing shortage.

Mr Clegg has said that the cities that are planned to be built between Oxford and Cambridge, will contain, “high-quality homes in thriving new communities”.

The Deputy PM has told there was a large area where many people wanted to live but were unable to find economic or affordable houses.

Mr Clegg has said: “People are starting to understand, particularly in that ark of prosperity that goes from Oxford right through to Cambridge, where more and more people want to live but simply can’t live at the moment or are totally priced out of the housing market altogether, one way of making sure that more families can live there, more people work there, more kids can go to school… is to plan it properly through garden cities.

At a press conference in Westminster, he has added: “Once, owning a home was a dream that people felt they could achieve one day. It’s now increasingly becoming a pipe dream for far too many people.

“We have not built enough houses for a very long period of time so we need to enter into a real step change in the number of homes we are building across this country.”

He has also referred the scheme was intended to create “planned, liveable, attractive communities particularly… in the south of our country where many, many people want to live but presently simply can’t find homes for them and their families to live in”.

The sites of the new garden cities are yet to be decided, but the funding will be made available from an existing pot of £2.4bn for developments being built up to 2020.

Councils will now be invited to raise any concerns they have over the government’s new scheme and submit their own schemes to develop new generation of “garden cities”.

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