One of the announcements in tomorrow’s Budget that George Osborne has been very keen to trail is his support for a garden city at Ebbsfleet. It’s not a new location, and the project has got many eagle economic eyes fixed on it; I wrote about the ambitions that Labour’s Lord Adonis holds for the area back in February.
But one crucial difference between the Adonis plan and the Osborne plan is that the Chancellor doesn’t see Ebbsfleet as a way of making the case for more garden cities in the future. This New Town or garden city or whatever you fancy calling it is remarkable because it has the support of the two local MPs and the local community, who would rather see brownfield land developed into pleasant, high quality housing than the land staying undeveloped and ugly.
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