What is Forest City?

Forest City is a plan for Britain's first new city in over 50 years—a city of up to a million people, built over 30 years on 45,000 acres of land between Haverhill and Newmarket.

It is not a housing estate. It's a complete city, planned properly from day one: 400,000 affordable homes, a 12,000 acre nature reserve (the largest in England), a 1,600 acre reservoir/lake you can swim in, four new hospitals, a tram network, and a new train station at Haverhill connecting to Cambridge and London.

Haverhill sits right at the edge of it. Today, Haverhill is one of the largest towns in Britain without a train station, passed over by successive governments while Cambridge gets the investment. Forest City puts Haverhill at the centre of the story instead: the jobs, the training colleges, the healthcare, and the transport links arrive on its doorstep, starting years before the first home is even built.

The plan is privately funded. We will spend the next few years developing the masterplan, which will then be examined publicly through the Government's Strategic Planning process. If approved, a government-owned development corporation would build the city—the same model that delivered Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park.