Will new towns fix the UK’s housing crisis?

With an estimated shortfall of 4.3 million homes in the UK, the Labour government has said “new towns” are a key part of its plan to build 1.5 million houses over the next five years. But are the plans enough to solve the crisis? 

Angela Rayner last month signalled the “largest housebuilding programme since the postwar period”, inspired by the post-Second World War creation of towns such as Stevenage, Warrington and Milton Keynes.