Ebbsfleet in Kent has been announced as the location for a new garden city
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Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that a Development Corporation will be established to progress plans for a new garden city in Kent involving up to £200m of public investment and 15,000 new homes.
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that a Development Corporation will be established to progress plans for a new garden city in Kent involving up to £200m of public investment and 15,000 new homes.
The development is earmarked for brownfield land – a former quarry and industrial sites – around the high speed rail station at Ebbsfleet which is 19 minutes by train from central London. The initiative will be supported by an urban development corporation which will have compulsory purchase powers.
‘We’re going to create an urban development corporation so we’re going to create the instrument that allows this kind of thing to go ahead and cuts through a lot of the obstacles that often happen when you want to build these homes,’ the Chancellor told the BBC.
‘There are already some homes being built on the site, so progress was under way, but it was on a much, much smaller scale and with much less ambition than what I’m setting out.’
In 2012, Government ministers, three Kent councils and developer Land Securities agreed plans for about 22,600 new homes to be built at Ebbsfleet over 20 years.
The Chancellor said local MPs were enthusiastic about the idea and local people wanted to see regeneration of the area.
