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The Government has announced fourteen sites for new garden towns and villages to be built across the country, from Cornwall to Cumbria.

Ministers hope these developments will help tackle the housing crisis by responding to local housing needs - especially for first-time buyers- and aim to make them distinct places, equipped with their own community infrastructure and facilities.

The idea of the garden city is not a new one and building them has often been a contentious issue in rural areas- as Keith Macdougall explains on a trip to the original garden city of Letchworth.