Conservatives 'suppressing garden cities report'
David Cameron raised the "garden city" idea in a speech two years ago The Conservatives have been accused of suppressing a report which recommends building two new garden cities to combat the housing shortage.
Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron said his coalition partners feared alienating voters in southern England ahead of the general election.
Mr Farron said he believed the report identified two potential sites - in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
The Conservatives denied any delay and said plans would be outlined for 2015.
New communitiesThe report was initially commissioned following a speech by Prime Minister David Cameron two years ago in which he supported the idea of new garden cities to help alleviate the housing situation.
Mr Farron has now accused the Conservatives of deliberately suppressing its publication.
The sites would provide thousands of homes and include schools, transport and infrastructure to support whole new communities.
Mr Farron said there was clearly a housing crisis - and the garden cities could provide a solution - but the Conservatives feared provoking an angry response from voters in Tory heartlands.
Earlier this week, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg expressed his continued support for the idea in the Commons, and said he hoped plans would be published as soon as possible.
Building programmeGovernment plans for new garden cities have run into opposition from local authorities.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has reportedly said he would not "impose" the developments on areas that did not want them.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said Labour would launch the biggest programme of new town construction in decades.
His party is committed to building 200,000 new homes a year by 2020.
Twenty-seven new towns sprung up across the UK after World War Two, including Stevenage, Harlow, Milton Keynes, Corby, Cwmbran, Newton Aycliffe, Peterlee and Cumbernauld.
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