Hostile welcome for environmentally-friendly homes plan

07 February 2008
 
Residents in the Warwickshire village of Long Marston have joined the ranks of protesters against plans for 10 new eco towns to spearhead government plans for 200,000 sustainable homes.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has received more than 50 bids from developers keen to join the shortlist of 10 eco towns sites, which is expected to be published shortly.

Although none of the schemes have been formally selected, proposals for the homes, which are expected to set new environmental and design standards, have already attracted protests and opposition from as far afield as Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.

John Nichols, chief executive of Leicester Regeneration Company warned that a scheme to build a 15,000-home eco town between Stroughton and Great Glen could undermine plans to revitalise the city centre.

The competition for design of new eco towns was launched by former housing minister, Yvette Cooper, in October, after the prime minister, Gordon Brown, increased the number from five to 10.

Advisers from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment will help choose the eventual winners, but the schemes will then have to go through the local planning process.

Residents from Long Marston and the nearby village of Clifford Chambers joined in a weekend protest march against plans for up to 6,000 new homes on the site of a former airfield.

However a spokesman for DCLG said: ‘Nothing has been decided. We expect there will be plenty of time for detailed public consultation once the shortlist of schemes has been announced.’

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