Work on first new towns to ‘start within four years’ says Pennycook as 100 proposals submitted

By Tom Lowe2025-02-13T12:50:00

Matthew Pennycook says new towns to contribute to government’s 1.5 million-homes housing target

Construction work on the government’s new towns programme will start within the next four years, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has said.

Pennycook told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning that he expected plans for the first wave of new town projects to “make a contribution to housing numbers in this Parliament”.

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