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The magnificent seven? Building England’s new towns

The magnificent seven? Building England’s new towns

A shortlist of new town locations has been finalised by the government, but how will they be built, what role will AI have, and what now for those proposals that were rejected?

Noella Pio Kivlehan26 May 2026Read Time: 10 minutes

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