<b>Will Howie argues that John Prescott&amp;’s plan for 200,000 new homes proves that Professor Crow was right all along three years ago. But if we are going to build the extra homes, let&amp;’s make sure they are in the right place - and that means London, not Ashford</b><br><b>The Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott appears to have got serious about housing at last. His most recent policy announcement came out last month under the fashionable title, Sustainable communities: building for the future. It was unfairly hailed as a plan &amp;“to bulldoze the north and concrete the south&amp;”. Setting the journalistic hyperbole of that headline to one side, it is true to say that Prescott&amp;’s main aim is to deal with the housing crisis in south east England.</b><br> His plan is to have an extra 200,000 homes built in the region in the coming 15 to 20 years. The number is an interesting one, since it adds 10,000-13,000 a year to the 43,000 that Prescott decreed for the region outside of London, that is a total of about 800,000 over a similar period. Adding the two big numbers together, we come to something like a million new homes. If I know Whitehall, …