Large-scale housing sites – developments with thousands of units similar to those envisaged in the Government’s garden villages – can help bring about housing affordability but only when there is good planning, the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) study of the South West housing market finds. 

A new RTPI study of six large housing developments in the South West of England including one at Tolgus, Redruth, finds that they can have a positive effect on affordability in the region and can play an important part in solving the housing crisis.