From Milton Keynes to Moscow, the “garden city” concept of creating model new towns has been the main weapon in the battle against housing shortages.
The biggest British garden city project currently under way is finally starting to take shape in the Ebbsfleet Valley, a no-man’s-land swathe of North Kent known by many, up to now, only for its international railway station.
Over the next 10 to 15 years, however, Ebbsfleet is to become more than a stop between London and Paris. It is being reborn as a significant new town, with 15,000 new homes on brownfield land close to Gravesend.
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