Kingswood scheme for nearly 3,000 new homes assembled by Sir Michael Hintze, who has given £4.6m to the Conservatives Tory councillors in revolt over plans to accelerate housebuilding Plans for a new town in rural Sussex backed by one of the Conservative party’s biggest donors and close allies of Prince Charles, are exposing a split in the Tory party over how to rapidly accelerate housebuilding. Kingswood, a scheme for 2,850 homes, is being proposed on open fields at Adversane near Horsham which have been assembled by hedge fund billionaire Sir Michael Hintze who has given £4.6m to the Conservatives. Its design is partly inspired by Poundbury , the ersatz Georgian town in Dorset created by Prince Charles, and Sir Michael Peat, the Prince of Wales’s former private secretary is a director of the development company. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/30choY9