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Build new developments around better public transport, says report

Deniz Huseyin
21 March 2025
The planning system is promoting the ‘doughnut effect’ with a preference for greenfield developments while brownfield sites in towns remain unbuilt and derelict, with high streets in decline, says the report
The planning system is promoting the ‘doughnut effect’ with a preference for greenfield developments while brownfield sites in towns remain unbuilt and derelict, with high streets in decline, says the report
 

New housing estates being built in England resemble a jigsaw puzzle with some of the most important pieces missing – the stations, the mass transit systems and on-site community provision and services. This is the key finding of a new report from campaign group Transport for New Homes.

Housing targets aimed at rural areas and a developer-led choice of location are creating car-dependent estates “far away from major urban areas and isolated from good public transport, and that...

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