The Art of Building a Garden City

The Government’s

Current Approach

In the absence of a national or regional

strategy for growth, the onus is on local

authorities to identify the need for new

communities through their Local Plan

processes. These should be guided by

the principles and criteria set out above,

but a lack of resources and pressure to

draft plans at speed mean that this is not

always possible. Without a government

requirement to consider these issues, it is

up to progressive local authorities to take

this approach.

Several authorities are going for growth

using their Local Plan. There are also a

number of larger-scale developments

coming forward that were not identified ...