From the on line pages of 'New Civil Engineer Magazine' today:
Four sites have been confirmed today as the locations of the Government’s new carbon neutral “eco-towns”.
"Housing Minister John Healey announced that Rackheath in Norfolk, North West Bicester in Oxfordshire, Whitehill-Bordon in East Hants and St Austell (China Clay) in Cornwall will go through to the next planning phase, full public consultation and local planning approval.
The 4 locations will now share £60m of start up growth funding, which will be spent by 2011 on demonstrator projects, exhibition homes and improving local facilities and infrastructure."
John Healey, Housing Minister, is quoted as saying:
“We are establishing pioneering places that in ten years’ time will set the standard for every new town.”
Grant Shapps, Shadow Housing Minister is quoted as criticising the scheme:
“...and said: “All the low-flush toilets in the world can’t make dumping a housing estate on green fields somehow eco-friendly."
It seems that we here in Inverness are not the only ones to be concerned about the proposed building a new 'eco' town on a green field site - containing good agricultural land and next to a trunk road and an airport.
The full article can be found at:
http://www.nce.co.uk/news/energy/locations-of-four-eco-towns-announced/5205227.article
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