• If there’s no GP and you can’t buy a pint of milk, what’s the point of Northstowe? | Rowan Moore

    If there’s no GP and you can’t buy a pint of milk, what’s the point of Northstowe? | Rowan Moore
    The biggest new town since Milton Keynes is billed as ‘unique’, but provision of even basic services seems to have been forgottenNorthstowe is a new town, billed as the largest since Milton Keynes was launched in the 1960s. It is, its developers say, “sustainable”. It “has a strong sense of community and an identity that is entirely unique” – so much so, it turns out, that it has no shop, cafe or GP surgery, which means that anyone who wants to buy a pin

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