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Owen Huxford
Introduction

Towards an Urban Renaissance, the report of the Urban Task Force was published on 29 June 1999.  The Urban Task Force was one of many task forces that had been set up by the new Labour Government brought to power in May 1997.

Local plans should be based on a shared vision for each town developed with the community, rather than relying on landowners and developers to propose sites for development.