Map shows where seven new UK towns could be built

We might be seeing several new towns pop up across the UK in the coming years (Picture: Victoria Riverside)

The government has confirmed the locations for the seven new towns proposed to kickstart a housebuilding push across the UK.

The new towns form part of an extension to the 1946 New Towns Act, a series of Acts in Parliament made to help alleviate housing shortages after the war.

It led to the creation of 32 communities that are ‘now home to millions of people’, and the government is now looking to honour their ‘manifesto commitment’ with the creation of seven new towns over the coming years.

Tempsford, Leeds South Bank, Crews Hill and Chase Park, Manchester Victoria No...