I mean you also need to account for the fact that government and parliament aren’t the same, and that it’s parliament who can and would ultimately need to legis

I mean you also need to account for the fact that government and parliament aren’t the same, and that it’s parliament who can and would ultimately need to legislate to wave away green belt and local planning objections. Far from clear that that gets through a Labour majority parliament, even if the government wants it to. re Oxford, there’s a shed-load of ugly and very well connected land around Kidlington that you could dump a large, high-density town into, and Oxford West is a Con/LD swing seat, but local opposition is fiercely against.