Please all note that the next meeting will be

Sprawl: the end of the town-country divide

Tuesday, 14th November, 6pm
The Westminster Forum
Centre for the Study of Democracy

James Heartfield

Writer, lecturer and director of the think tank Audacity.

James, who is studying for a PhD at CSD, will be talking about his latest book, Let's Build, in which he explains why we need five million homes in the next 10 years.

We shall also be joined by Nicholas Schoon, Communications Director for the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England.

Pressure for new homes could lead to the end of the division between town and country, but today restrictions on new development are geared to maintain it. Will we concrete over the countryside? Is the government serious about building four million new homes?

Read the press coverage of the book. 'Superbia suburbia', Daily Telegraph leader, 24 September 2006