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Britain to build 17 towns to ease housing squeeze

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Published Tue, Jan 3, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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BRITAIN'S government announced plans on Monday to build 17 new towns and villages across the English countryside in a bid to ease a chronic housing shortage.

The new "garden" communities - from Cumbria in the north to Cornwall on England's southern-most tip - would be part of a scheme to build up to 200,000 new homes, housing and planning minister Gavin Barwell said in a statement.

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