<p>The government has announced a £6 million fund to help deliver England’s first ever garden villages which, it says, have the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes.</p> <p>In an expansion of the existing garden towns programme, these smaller projects will each deliver between 1,500 and 10,000 homes.</p> <p>The 14 new garden villages will have access to the £6 million fund over the next two financial years provide “additional resources and expertise to accelerate development and avoid delays”.</p> <p>The government has also announced support for three new garden towns in Aylesbury, Taunton and Harlow &amp; Gilston with £1.4 million of funding to support their delivery.</p> <p>Together with the seven garden towns already announced, these 17 new garden settlements have the combined potential to provide almost 200,000 new homes across the country, says the government.</p> <p>Housing and planning minister Gavin Barwell said: “Locally-led garden towns and villages have enormous potential to deliver the homes that communities need. New communities not only deliver homes, they also bring new jobs and facilities and a big boost to local economies. These places combined could provide almost 200,000 homes.”</p> <p> </p> <p>The 14 new garden villages are:</p> <p>Long Marston in Stratford-on-Avon<br>Oxfordshire Cotswold in West Oxfordshire<br>Deenethorpe …