Needlessly wide roads should be torn up and replaced with boulevards of new housing, a think tank has said.
Create Streets wants sweeping T-junctions tightened, vast roundabouts “tamed” and expressways narrowed, according to a paper to be circulated to ministers.
Amid a worsening housing crisis that is increasing pressure to erect homes in the countryside, it said: “Forget green belt. This is Britain’s road belt and it’s time to build on it.”
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Newcastle is home to the first quarter’s biggest deal with DWP’s 170,000 sq ft pre-let
Peter Bill on the “impending damnation of property portals”
Agency’s top team says firm will be more resilient now than in the GFC
Majority of boroughs did not start a single residential development in the first quarter of this year
