Autumn budget: Hammond urged to invest £7bn in transport for new towns
National infrastructure commission calls for the rate of housebuilding to be doubled across a swath of central England
Philip Hammond is being urged to earmark £7bn for new transport links in the “brain belt” spanning Oxford, Cambridge and Milton Keynes in next week’s budget, and persuade local authorities to build the first new towns in half a century.
The national infrastructure commission, backed by the government and chaired by Labour peer Andrew Adonis, is calling for the rate of housebuilding to be doubled across a swath of central England, to deliver a million new homes.
Source: Guardian Transport
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