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'It shouldn't be this hard'

As one district gets ready to create a new garden town, Heather Jameson hears how it took determination and political will to make it happen.

Handing housing targets down from central to local government is one thing, but delivering them on the ground is another.

At a district level, many councils are stymied by local resistance to development or a lack of political will, but for Folkestone and Hythe DC in Kent, it is the political determination that has driven its push for growth.

Heather Jameson

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