Forest City 1

Britain needs millions of homes. We have a plan and a team to build them, east of Cambridge, as a beautiful, permanently affordable city.

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“Building a new city may seem outrageously audacious but it’s part of what will make national renewal real. And if it’s done with genuine partnership and a focus on people and place, it could transform the opportunities for today’s and tomorrow’s new generations.”

Dame Patricia Hewitt, former Labour Secretary of State for Trade & Industry

“The UK needs far more houses. They need to be in the right places…The area around Cambridge is such a place. Using a community land trust means that build out rates can be rapid - exactly as they were in the UK in the Industrial Revolution. Let’s make this happen.”

Professor Tim Leunig, former advisor to two Conservative Chancellors and three Housing Secretaries.

“Long-term thinking would endorse the creation of brand new cities in preference to torturing the infrastructure of old towns.”

Angus Hanton, Founder of Woodlands.co.uk and the Intergenerational Foundation.

“It will be exciting to explore how delivering CLT at this scale will work to create huge amounts of affordable housing over many generations”

Tom Chance, CEO of the CLT Network.
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We need to build beautiful homes in places people want to live, enhance the nature around them, and create communities where families thrive.

We build too few homes. In the wrong places. That few people like. Without planned infrastructure. Then act surprised when locals object, buyers can’t afford them, and nothing improves.

This isn’t a housing crisis—it’s a policy failure.

Britain is short over 4 million homes. You’re earning good money and can’t buy a flat. And every development becomes a planning battle that satisfies nobody.

We can keep doing this. Or we can build a city.

Not another housing estate. A real city for 1 million people where:

  • ✓ People want to live — Beautiful architecture, walkable neighborhoods, real place-making. Communities that feel like home, not just addresses.
  • ✓ Businesses want to be — East of Cambridge, unlocking Britain’s innovation capital.
  • ✓ Families thrive — Community-owned, affordable forever. Built for raising children and putting down roots.
  • ✓ Nature improves — 12,000 acres of new native forest. England is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. We can build a city and repair biodiversity at the same time.
  • ✓ Infrastructure works — Schools, hospitals, transport, and parks designed from day one—not squeezed in as afterthoughts.

Britain’s first new city in 50 years. Proof that we can still build extraordinary things. That ambition isn’t dead. That working families aren’t permanently locked out. That we can create places worth caring about.

For this to work, government needs to back it—not with subsidy, but with permission. Development Corporation powers to build at scale without decades-long planning paralysis. The proven model that delivered Milton Keynes, Canary Wharf, and the Olympics.

I want to live in a country where I can afford a home, raise a family, and believe tomorrow will be better than today. Where we build beautiful places that strengthen communities and repair nature. Where we choose ambition over managed decline.

I support Britain building its next great city.

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How This Process Works

Phase 1: Prove Demand

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Phase 2: Build the Business Case

Phase 3: Deep Feasibility Studies

Phase 4: Pass Legislation & Establish Development Corporation

Phase 5: Break Ground

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Detailed Plans

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About

Britain stopped believing the future could be better than the past. We're here to prove that wrong. Learn about our vision for Britain's first new city in 50 years—a forest city of nearly 1 million people, merging the best ideas from across the political spectrum.

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How This Process Works

We're moving at startup speed to deliver this by the end of the current Parliamentary term. From proving demand to breaking ground, discover the five phases that will make this vision a reality—and where you can help.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why a whole new city? Won't this destroy the countryside? How can housing be affordable? We answer the tough questions about democracy, sustainability, jobs, infrastructure, and what makes this different from failed projects of the past.

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