The highest housing targets are in areas with the lowest levels of public transport satisfaction.
Category: Media and press
Transport for New Homes responds to Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Transport for New Homes’ recent report, What is being built in 2025? In search of the station, revealed housing targets aimed at rural parts of the country and a developer-led choice of location are creating car-dependent estates far away from major urban areas and isolated from good public transport.
New housing developments like ‘a jigsaw with pieces missing’
A new report has concluded that a combination of wrong location, wrong transport and a lack of density is resulting in car dependent ‘tarmac’ housing estates which are increasing congestion and limiting housing choices.
New “cowpat” housing developments are adding to traffic congestion and locking communities into car-dependency
New research has found that greenfield housing estates are adding hundreds of thousands of new car journeys to our roads, increasing congestion, carbon emissions and air pollution.
Our joint letter to the Telegraph about high street planning
We urge the Government to think again about its proposals to allow high street businesses to be changed to housing without full planning permission.
Green promises broken: Garden Villages and Garden Towns will be dominated by the car
Far from being vibrant, green communities, Garden Villages and Garden Towns are at high risk of becoming car-dependent commuter estates.