40% affordable homes target for Labour’s new towns

Labour aims to deliver 40% affordable homes in a next generation of new towns, if it wins power,
Shadow housing secretary and deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner pledged to work with the private sector to build  “new towns” aimed at meeting a commitment to construct 1.5m new homes over five years.
She said the party would appoint a new towns taskforce of independent experts to earmark sites for the first of its new towns before the end of its first year in power.In a speech to th