It comes as the Housing Secretary is set to pledge that the construction of three new towns will begin before the next election at Labour’s party conference – with Tempsford in Bedfordshire, Leeds South Bank, and Crews Hill, north London, described as the “most promising sites”. The chairman of the parish council in Tempsford, which is home to 600 people and 300 houses, said residents have no idea what to expect or prepare for. David Sutton told the PA news agency: “The biggest problem we’ve got at the moment is that even today, as an announcement’s being made, we’ve been...