Caroline Flint the housing minister is planning 10 eco towns.
I understand that one of these might be postioned out-side Nantwitch- Rumour or Truth?
Personally, I think that we need to start somewhere and it is better to control the supply of new homes than to allow market forces to impinge on the Green Belt.
The current Planning system generally regulates the supply of Land but as the Goverment has issued targets of a further 3 million new homes by 2020 to keep up with the increased population , they need to come from somewhere and the feelings are that they may need to impinge on previous green belt as the brownfield sites are not emerging as previously thought due to a variety of issues .
Do we want an eco town oustide Nantwich or else where in the uk?
Further thoughts can be read here http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/10/communities.planning1
Let me know what you think?
3 comments:
I think a town/village orientated around public transport and amenities is a superb idea. The location cited is, in my opinion a good one - although I guarantee the locals wont think so.
Im not an eco fanatic by any means, but I don't believe in waste and love efficiency, i'd love to be able to commute everywhere on clean efficient public transport, and a development like this could enable people too. If only drastic changes were made to existing towns to enable this.
chris- i am not an eco nut either but currently studying an Ma in urban regeneration and therefore it is very thought provoking- An eco village would be great and it makes sense that we use public transport such as the railways to get about
This means we all need to change the way we travel, but we do need to live somewhere and it would sense to have some governace over the location materials etc of new villages rather than let them grow to profit
i would love to see what has less enviro impact - building an eco town on a site that's currently open.... or... vastly improving things like cycle lanes, public transport, local-food shopping, consumer goods swap schemes (cuts down on demand for resources by reducting shopping AND reduces landfill), etc, in existing towns/villages.
i am an eco-nut :-)
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