Study report urges Britain to learn from France’s tram-led housing model

Peter Stonham
19 March 2026
 

A new report from Create Streets shares the experience of a group of British policymakers, advisers and civil servants responsible for housing, transport and the UK’s proposed New Towns programme on a study visit to France. “For Britain, where housing and transport are too often planned separately, the message is simple: if we want to build more homes and better places, we need to plan them together” the report says.

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