New Towns: Construction
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 3 of the report entitled New Towns for England, published by WPI Strategy in May 2025, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of modular construction.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
The government has tasked the New Towns Taskforce, an independent expert advisory panel chaired by Sir Michael Lyons, with developing recommendations to ministers on suitable locations for new towns, as well as how to fund and deliver them.
The Taskforce will submit its final report in the near future and the government will subsequently publish both the report and its response.
Any hypothetical cost projections associated with the New Towns programme are, at this stage, pure speculation.
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