URBED in the Financial Times

Monday 13th April, 2015

URBED, along with the finalists for last year's Wolfson Economics Prize, are urging politicians to take the politics out of settlements. They argue that a Royal Commision should decide in an impartial way where new settlements should be located, and new development bodies should have the power to culsorarily purchase the necessary land.

URBED have backed the call to increase the size of existing towns in the UK, saying that new towns are too small to be economically successful.

You can read the full statement here.