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Sector leaders welcome new towns announcement but warn of viability and infrastructure challenges

By 2025-09-29T12:58:00

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Professionals across the built environment have broadly welcomed the government’s new towns announcement but many have warned that developers will need support to ensure viability.

Proposed sites for 12 new towns across the UK were revealed yesterday with housing secretary Steve Reed promising that three of the schemes, which will each contain at least 10,000 homes, will start construction during this parliament.

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