Published by UK Cohousing and the Community Land Trust Network, 2025

The UK government has an ambitious target of building 1.5 million homes, with new towns a flagship policy to achieve this. We need to ask not only how they can meet this target, but also how they can create thriving, sustainable communities.

This guide is aimed at practitioners across the housing sector, who wish to understand the potential for communityled housing in new towns, and how this can be implemented.

An article from UK Cohousing outlines the purpose of the report further. Open it by clicking this link

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Front cover of a report. The top half is blue and the bottom half shows a photo of a number of people in a park on a sunny dayThe title of the report says 'Putting people at the heart of new towns'