new town

plural new towns

1. A planned community or urban development area.

   The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.

   2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11

2. UKA town built to address housing shortages after World War II.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new, town.

1. A suburb of Ashford, Kent, England, south-east of the town centre (OS grid ref TR0141). Also spelt Newtown.

   The autumn of the year 1850 also saw the establishment of the Carriage & Wagon Department at Ashford, by which time the adjacent railway village had been extended by another sixty houses. This village at first was known as Alfred Town but later became Ashford New Town.

   1947 November and December, “Ashford Works Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 389

2. A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
3. A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

   Synonyms: Newtown, Rajarhat