Aerial visualisation of Shelter/PRP’s submission for second place of the Wolfson Economics Prize – a garden city where Boris Johnson had hoped to place his airport. · Credit: Marta Gomez

Burgeoning enthusiasm for the garden city is more about wanting to change the way we live than solving the housing crisis

Schools, the NHS, taxes: this is the stuff that hits at the heart when people are considering where to place their x on the ballot paper as a general election approaches. Housing is generally way down the agenda.

But significant housing under-supply and the inability of Generation Rent to become part of the UK’s property-owning democracy are focusing Westminster’s finest minds on housebuilding. We are building around half the homes needed – more than 30% below what we were building in 2007-2008, as property consultant Savills stated in its report, Garden cities: Breaking new ground. As a result, all three political parties are pledging to build more homes, and they are voicing a determined enthusiasm for garden cities.....Continue Reading

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