By Ben Hopkinson Solving the housing crisis means building near where people want to live, not creating white elephants in the middle of nowhere, says Ben Hopkinson Angela Rayner yesterday announced Labour’s plans for the next generation of new towns. Labour are planning to build these developments with high standards of design, quality, affordability, green spaces and infrastructure. In tackling Britain’s, and crucially London’s, growth-killing housing shortage, Labour have the right priority but they should be careful with new towns built far from our existing cities. Recent British history …