Behind it, Church Langley Way begins its long loop through 2, new homes, built in a jumble of styles from neo-Georgian to unadorned rabbit- hutch. Way out on the fringes of the development you can buy a four-bedroom Barratt home for pounds , Don't worry about selling your own place; Barratt will buy it - an offer repeated in various forms by most of the developers who have plied their trade here since , and one that helped many a desperate family to move even in the darkest days of the housing market's collapse.
In the Department of the Environment forecast that Britain would have 4. They would need a roughly equivalent number of new homes, and the rising divorce rate meant that 80 per cent of those would be for single people. Last year the Joseph Rowntree Foundation updated the figure, saying immigration from Europe and the needs of the homeless would increase the new households to five million.
The question was, and still is, where the homes should be built. The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, believes that more than half should go up in urban areas, and favours what he calls urban villages - neighbourhoods that will localise the experience of living in a big city.
Developers would sooner have green-field sites on which to build than have to clean up polluted factory land or convert warehouses.
The renovation of existing property is much more difficult and costly than putting up rows of identical homes. What is not often said in this debate is that up to 90 per cent of the new homes we need are already accounted for in county planning guidelines.
Under the Conservative administration, planners were encouraged to work with private sector developers by making the provision of community facilities a condition of planning permission. As a result, more than two dozen self- contained developments are being built across Britain. They are usually sited near major road links and aimed at members of the car-owning commuter classes. With its fashionable claim to a village life and its proximity to the M11 and the M25, Church Langley looks like one vision of the future.
But does it work? Ten years ago Harlow council was faced with overcrowding. So it was given permission to allow 3, homes to be built out of town, on a wedge of farmland between the A and the M File information.
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