No thanks. There's no reason cities can't expand upwards. Besides that, there's plenty of brownfield sites that could be converted to housing if the desire to d

No thanks. There's no reason cities can't expand upwards. Besides that, there's plenty of brownfield sites that could be converted to housing if the desire to do so was there. The best option in reducing prices would be to invest more heavily in transport infrastructure so that towns on the periphery of cities became more attractive to live in, and therefore develop in. Investments are being made in national rail infrastructure, but less so on the local level. It's a real shame that the UK lost so much of its railway infrastructure during the push towards automotive transportation.