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The Sunday Telegraph (London):
Build 1,000 'commuter villages' on green belt, ministers urged

22 September 2019

Home Affairs editor A THOUSAND "commuter villages" with 2.1million new homes should be built on the green belt near railway stations to help solve the housing crisis, a leading government adviser and academic has proposed.
Paul Cheshire said building communities within 10 minutes' walk of 1,035 under-developed stations would offer quick commutes to urban jobs while producing as many new houses as have been built in the past 15 years. It would take commuters 45 minutes to reach their work, providing environmentally "greener" and shorter trips than many now face, said the London School of Economics professor, a government adviser for more than a decade.
The 47,000 hectares of land needed would be just 1.8 per cent of the green belt in England, but would increase the number of homes in Britain by almost 10 per cent. Prof Cheshire's report, for the think tank Centre for Cities, calls for restrictions on affordable housing, and community infrastructure levies to be replaced by a 20 per cent charge on developers when they sold the houses.

Homes on the right tracks Greening the Green Belt to solve the housing crisis. Paul Cheshire and Boyana Buyuklieva. September 2019.

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