Two new towns could be built to help meet 13,200

The Forest of Dean's housing target has almost doubled. (Image: PA/Carmelo Garcia)

Two new towns could be built to help meet a Gloucestershire district’s housing target of around 13,200 homes.

District Council leaders in the Forest of Dean are due to recommend their strategy for the area’s new blueprint for development.

Their preferred approach for the new local plan,which would be valid until 2045, is for one or two new settlements to be built and housing and employment development to be concentrated in the main towns.

The suggested hybrid strategy would also include modest growth in larger villagers and villages.

The revised local plan strategy, which is due to be considered by the Green Party cabinet on November 6, has been met with mixed reactions from the other groups on th