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Building the future: lessons from the New Towns

The New Towns programme remains the most ambitious urbanism initiative ever undertaken in the UK. The programme sought to provide jobs and affordable homes in healthy, balanced, and thriving communities. The 32 New Towns delivered through the New Towns Act today provide homes for over 2.8 million people. There are many lessons to be learnt from the successes and failures of the New Towns programme. This incudes the key issues of housing, green infrastructure, stewardship, culture, finance, land ownership and delivery. Learning the transferable lessons of the New Towns programme is essential to inform the creation of a new generation of ambitious new places today. This briefing and debate draws on the TCPA’s extensive work on the subject, including our 2024 publication “Our shared future: A TCPA White Paper for Homes and Communities” and RIBA Publication ‘New Towns: Rise, Fall, Rebirth’.