It’s been the big issue for ages and it doesn’t seem to want to stop. The eco-town argument rolls on and on, but this week it has received a major boost when the Queen and Prince Charles got involved. Whilst Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has given the green light for the Ashford site and one developer hits back at MP’s criticisms.

The Queen and the Prince of Wales have joined the race to be part of the government’s controversial eco-town scheme, with the crown estate acting as partner in a consortium that hopes to built a town of 5,000 houses near Nottingham. Prince Charles’s Foundation for the Built Environment has been asked to advise on the scheme’s design and to try to ensure community involvement from the outset for the project.

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Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has given the green light to the first of the government’s hugely controversial eco-towns. According to the developer, the scheme will achieve Level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, with its energy and water consumption reaching the highest Level 6.

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The companies proposing to construct the controversial eco-town near Mickleton have hit back at criticism of the project by the Cotswolds’ MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown. The St Modwen and Bird Group companies retaliated when Mr Clifton-Brown wrote a letter to the Government’s housing and planning minister, Caroline Flint, detailing his opposition to the controversial eco-town that would be called Middle Quinton and be built at Long Marston, Warwickshire.

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