New estates are built for cars, then promised buses that never come.
England-wide, typical of our region
What we can show
A study of 20 developments found them designed around the car, with up to two or three parking spaces per home. Promised public transport was often missing once people had moved in.
How sprawl adds to this
A hundred and fifty homes on a village edge cannot fund a frequent bus, let alone a station. The layout is built for the car because that is the only mode the site can actually deliver. The promised service is how the application gets through.
What a larger settlement can do
A larger planned settlement can be walked and served by rail from phase one. That only works if the rail is open before large occupations. Concentration is the scale that can make the car optional. Scattering never is.
The pattern is fewer, larger places with infrastructure first, not another estate on the edge of every village.
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We can stop this
We want building concentrated in fewer, larger places with schools, health, water and transport built in — not another estate on the edge of every village.
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