British planners are sending cars into towns

THE NEW town of Sherford, just east of Plymouth, is “building futures”, according to a large sign at its entrance. They are futures with a distinctly old-fashioned look, given that the development is largely Georgian in style. Much of the town, which is 10% complete and will in a couple of decades be home to 12,000 people, consists of terraced houses and mews buildings overlooking village greens, in contrast to Plymouth’s post-war suburbs of detached homes in cul-de-sacs. Most quaintly of all, Sherford has no bypass.