Britain Remade has proposed Britain builds 12 new towns to help ease the housing crisis and the government meet a target of 1.5 million homes by 2029.
The group said of York: “Extend the beautiful city to its ring road, helping to ease the worst housing shortage in the North.”
The plea comes as another think tank, UK Day One, has called for 10,000 homes to be built at Poppleton.
Britain Remade also identifies Poppleton as a site for a satellite town, which it says would add to other housing that would see York extend towards the outer ring road.
The group says York has previously been defended and defined by its city walls, but these do not constrain the city’s growth, but instead it is York’s Green Belt “which is among the most restrictive in England".
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