Decades of building hideous new homes have put us off development

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🏘️'As well as having a stake in capitalism I also now have a stake in jealously protecting my area against ingress from property development'

EM Forster spent his life arguing for the need to connect, particularly to attractive, young working-class men, but when a New Town was planned at Stevenage in 1946, moving thousands of those same workers into the Home Counties he grew up in, he had to think twice. “It is a collision of loyalties”, he wrote.

 

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