Crest Nicholson is to 鈥渞etrofit鈥� the principles of the Garden City into some of its large schemes with planning permission
The move is a boost for the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), which has been lobbying government to build a new generation of Garden Cities as a means of solving the housing crisis.
Speaking at a TCPA-organised fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, the housebuilder鈥檚 group board director and regeneration chairman Chris Tinker said: 鈥淲e have just secured several large consents of 1,500 to 2,000 units and we鈥檝e agreed with [TCPA chief executive] Kate Henderson that we鈥檙e going to try to integrate some of the principles of Garden Cities 鈥� retrofit them 鈥� into some of those developments.
鈥淲e won鈥檛 manage all of the principles on all of them, because they are not at the requisite scale. But we鈥檙e going to try to show that development of quality, development with style, can be delivered by a modern housebuilder.鈥�
Henderson said Crest Nicholson鈥檚 move was 鈥渧ery exciting鈥�.
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