Lord Rogers, an architect and a former adviser to the government, has questioned the building of the country’s first new garden town at a location in north Kent, saying that east London has plenty of brownfield land that could be used.
So far only 65 of the 15,000 homes planned for Ebbsfleet have been built. Critics have also said that the plans lack coherence and that the label of garden city is a misnomer.
Neither locals nor the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation are entirely happy with the homes that have been constructed. The chairman of Dartford planning committee, Derek Hunnisett, said the homes so far were standard off-the-peg stuff, while Michael Cassidy, chairman of the EDC, said the project needed better-quality housing.
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