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Campaign with the housing shortage: East of London, the British government wants to create a new city from the drawing board. Ebbsfleet has highway and Euro Star connection – and perhaps even makes Disneyland competition.

The station is already there, only the associated settlement has been found wanting for 20 years. If the Euro Star holds on its way from Brussels to London in Ebbsfleet International, then rises hardly anyone on and off. Why should they? Outside, finally waiting brownfield sites and an oversized parking lot.

That is about to change . You ‘ll build the first English garden city for a hundred years in Ebbsfleet , announced Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in his budget speech on Wednesday . On the Thames estuary east of London 15,000 houses are planned to accommodate up to 34,000 people . The desired message is clear : one year before the general election , the British government is sounding the fight against the lack of housing in the London area .

As a model Osborne called the two Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth in Hertfordshire . They were the beginning of the 20th Century north of London built as a refuge for the rapidly increasing urban population , but also as a human-friendly alternative to life in the big city .

In the British press, the boastful announcement of ” Georgetown ” ( “The Sun” ) caused some derision. The term ” garden city ” was immediately exposed as a shameless political PR. Because of the Victorian idea of ​​a pleasant small town surrounded by green hills is Ebbsfleet away. The new settlement on the former site of a cement factory will seamlessly connect to faceless suburbs on all sides of London.

Major London Project:Cities from the drawing board have tradition

However, every new house in the London area is welcome. It is estimated that the metropolis is to 2031 to grow two million to ten million inhabitants. Half a million of them could come under in the eastern suburbs on the Thames Estuary .

Ebbsfleet had been selected as the new housing development already in the nineties by the then Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine in planning the Euro Star train route. The planning permission was granted 2003. However, since little is happening , the private real estate developers are the infrastructure investments too high.

Now the state should help out . Finance Minister Osborne plans to provide 200 million pounds for the start-up funding . He also establishes an independent development authority that will manage this major project .

The time for Ebbsfleet had come , according to a report by the think tank Centre for London. It will go a long way , the authors , including former transport minister Lord Andrew Adonis write. But the location was good – ideal commuting distance , good transport links. And then there’s the prospect of a new Paramount Theme Park on the adjacent Swanscombe Peninsula. According to the report , it would be the largest park in Britain – and competition for Euro – Disney in Paris.

The plan on the drawing board is a tradition in the UK. In the postwar period , although no garden cities developed more , but two dozen ” New Towns ” : Small satellite towns such as Bracknell , Stevenage, Basildon and Crawley, who like a ring wrapped around the big cities. As in Germany, desolate pedestrian zones with countless eyesores of concrete. Milton Keynes, the epitome of the ” New Town ” , is nationally known as the capital of roundabouts. Here, the place is an economic success story : Within 50 years, from the village of a 250,000 -inhabitant Boomtown with international offices become .

Compared to these projects, Ebbsfleet takes modest. Critics point out that 15,000 homes could solve the housing problem in England is not nearly . But to a larger litter , the government apparently sees unable .

Two years ago, Prime Minister David Cameron had announced plans to build a whole range of garden cities. The plan was rejected secretly again because the head of the government fears the wrath of conservative voters . The possible locations for new garden cities around London are in the Tory heartland. Cameron and Osborne know from their own constituencies in Oxfordshire : The English Civil is highly sensitive to the development of its natural environment.

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