Stuart Curtis has published his investigation of ‘Housing around Rural Stations An examination of the potential for rural stations to help alleviate the housing crisis’.
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Stuart Curtis writes:
Network Rail runs around 20,000 miles of track, and more than 2,500 stations are along its length. Most of these are in rural settings, surrounded by open space or adjacent to low-density settlements, but some are within a short travel distance to the country’s largest towns and cities, which makes them perfect locations for people who want both a rural lifestyle and easy access to all of the amenities large cities offer…
… building 1.26 million homes around England’s rural stations would in fact only require the loss of 15,750ha of green belt… less than 1% of the entire country’s supply… That’s a small price to pay for delivering four years’ entire supply of new homes.
