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ARTICLE · 20 MARCH 2019

Allotments And Their Protection

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The housing shortage and housing affordability, particularly in the South East of England, is a near-constant media headline. Building on its manifesto pledge

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The housing shortage and housing affordability, particularly in the South East of England, is a near-constant media headline. Building on its manifesto pledge, in its Autumn 2017 Budget, the government announced its ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s. The government has made clear that (Garden Communities Prospectus (August 2018)):

... it's not just about getting the numbers up. We don't have to make a false choice between quality and quantity. We can – and must – have both, and well-planned, well-designed, locally-led garden communities have an important part to play in meeting our housing needs.

As such, garden communities – ie holistically planned and self-sustaining new settlements – are high up the government's political agenda. The government's Garden Communities Programme aims to take Ebenezer Howard's original idea of the garden city, which sought to combine the best of town and country living, and renew this for the 21st

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