Starmer’s plan to ‘build baby build’ risks more American-style car-dominated sprawl
- Written by James White, Professor of Planning and Urban Design, University of Glasgow
The UK’s Labour government has promised to “take an axe to red tape” through “bold reforms to the planning system”. It hopes to kickstart economic growth by generating the “biggest building boom in a generation”.
It seems that the aim to “build baby build”, in Prime Minister Keir...