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Farrel's right of course, although his comments about the adavnatages of private sector ownership are nonsense - sound like an exercise in self-interest.
But they are not particularly wise words - more a statement of the glaringly obvious to anyone with knowledge of urban development. Whenever you build an outer ring infrastructure around a capital city and create concentric connections to augment radial ones, you lay the ground for new centres of activity. In most developed nations, that is so self-evident that you plan for it. Grand Paris, the Berlin Ring, Yamanote Line in Tokyo.........It is a sad testament to the UK planning system that this seems to have been neither recognised, nor planned for, nor does it appear the system is able to be proactive enough to respond in retrospect. It shouldn't be someone like Terry Farrell pointing this out after the fact.