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'Break tie between new housing developments and car dependency'

Deniz Huseyin
21 March 2024

 

A new approach is urgently needed to planning that replaces sprawling road-dependent housing developments across fields with extensions to existing towns, comprising terraced homes and mansion blocks, which deliver more homes per acre. This is the core point of a new report from design practice Create Streets and charity Sustrans.

The report - Stepping off the Road to Nowhere - calls for shops and services to be mixed together with homes in fine-grained streets, supported by better buses,...

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