The government is being taken to court over the eco-towns policy in the South East Plan. Arun District Council has lodged a legal challenge to the policy, which states that councils should "facilitate" proposals agreed for growth points and eco-towns. It previously said they should merely "test" eco-town proposals,...
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Friday 26 June 2009
Thursday 25 June 2009
Is this the first Eco Town Scheme Obituary?
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/whatever-happened-to-eco-towns/5204103.article
This is a fantastic article by Damian Arnold - the quotations from sources close to the DCLG simply echo what we have been saying all along.
Even the Chief Exec of the Town and Country Planning Association is now hoping for just 5 towns to be announced. But the article suggests (in what sounds like a preparatory leak of policy to me) that the Homes and Communities Agency will assume responsibility for the whole programme and then quietly substitute existing urban extensions for the greenfield sites on the current list.
Not quite time to pop the champagne, but is it worth popping a couple of bottles in the chiller to be ready?
This is a fantastic article by Damian Arnold - the quotations from sources close to the DCLG simply echo what we have been saying all along.
Even the Chief Exec of the Town and Country Planning Association is now hoping for just 5 towns to be announced. But the article suggests (in what sounds like a preparatory leak of policy to me) that the Homes and Communities Agency will assume responsibility for the whole programme and then quietly substitute existing urban extensions for the greenfield sites on the current list.
Not quite time to pop the champagne, but is it worth popping a couple of bottles in the chiller to be ready?
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