Enfield council withdraws from government’s new towns programme
London authority’s new Tory-led administration delivers significant blow to Labour’s flagship housebuilding scheme Enfield council in north London has withdrawn from the government’s new towns programme, in a significant blow to Labour’s flagship housebuilding scheme. The move by the new minority Conservative-led administration could present one of the first tests of Rachel Reeves’s planning changes , designed to curb the use of judicial reviews against new infrastructure. Continue reading...