{"id":151209,"date":"2025-05-14T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=151209"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:17:08","slug":"infrastructure-delivery-should-reflect-community-needs-says-planning-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/infrastructure-delivery-should-reflect-community-needs-says-planning-professor\/151209\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure delivery should reflect community needs, says planning professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Professor John Sturzaker has spoken with a parliamentary committee to advise on hitting the 1.5m new homes target<\/h2>\n<p>Sturzaker is the Ebenezer Howard chair of planning at the University of Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n<p>He advised the Built Environment Committee on infrastructure delivery in the government\u2019s new towns programme.<\/p>\n<h3>Acceptance of new towns relies on infrastructure<\/h3>\n<p>During the inquiry, importance was placed on listening to communities and addressing their concerns and needs, rather than focusing on matters of principle or self-interest.<\/p>\n<p>This means focusing on delivering roads, village halls, schools, shops, GP surgeries, and ensuring these things are available early one will establish communities earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sturzaker also told the committee to be wary of an \u201cadversarial planning process\u201d, saying that more positive and effective communication and discourse is of utmost importance, maintaining a democratic approach to developments and bringing about a local-led design for new housing and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Further importance was given to good quality, affordable, and social housing, which must be built to last and not be \u201cwatered down\u201d during delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Sturzaker also said that while giving powers to mayors would be beneficial, the real value would lie in a \u201ccoalition of support through strategic and local planning systems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The whole inquiry can be viewed in <a href=\"https:\/\/parliamentlive.tv\/Event\/Index\/3b02c9f4-ed6a-4cb1-8a55-2983b4a0128b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video format or listened to in audio format here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The new homes programme and 1.5m new homes<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/details-new-towns-plan-revealed\/148484\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans were revealed in February<\/a>, announcing over 100 different sites to be considered and blockers to be tackled.<\/p>\n<p>The New Towns Taskforce held its first meeting in September the previous year, and their initial investigations saw over 100 proposals for new towns, each with potential for 10,000 news homes, affordable housing, essential infrastructure, and accessible green and natural spaces.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, prime minister, Keir Starmer, said: \u00a0\u201cFor so many families, homeownership is a distant dream. After a decade of decline in housebuilding, the impact is a disconnect between working hard and getting on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about more than just bricks and mortar. It\u2019s about the security and stability that owning your own home brings. I know what this means for working people \u2013 the roof above our head was everything for our family growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already made progress in just seven months, unblocking 20,000 stuck homes. But there\u2019s more to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re urgently using all levers available to build the homes we need so more families can get on the housing ladder. We\u2019re sweeping aside the blockers to get houses built, no longer accepting no as the default answer, and paving the way for the next generation of new towns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the largest housebuilding programme since the post-war era, our ambitious Plan for Change will transform the lives of working people, once again connecting the basic principle that if you work hard, you should get on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor John Sturzaker has spoken with a parliamentary committee to advise on infrastructure delivery and the 1.5m new homes target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":151210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[579,172995],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-infrastructure","9":"tag-new-towns"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Infrastructure delivery should reflect community needs, says planning professor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Professor John Sturzaker has spoken with a parliamentary committee to advise on infrastructure delivery and the 1.5m new homes target\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/infrastructure-delivery-should-reflect-community-needs-says-planning-professor\/151209\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Infrastructure delivery should reflect community needs, says planning professor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Professor John Sturzaker has spoken with a parliamentary committee to advise on infrastructure delivery and the 1.5m new homes target\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/infrastructure-delivery-should-reflect-community-needs-says-planning-professor\/151209\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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