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Labour’s housing policies have already been tried – and have failed. Here is the radical solution

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Labour wants to build high-density housing on brownfield sites which has meant erecting tower blocks set in open spaces.

This kind of housing has proved a social nightmare outside cities as various as Paris and Seoul .

New-towns impulse has deep roots in Britain , going back to the garden city movement, but, since their beginnings, these places have struggled to become proper towns.

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