This week Housing Minister Caroline Flint has announced that her decision could have been delayed by months. However the plans for a 5,000-home eco-town in Lichfield have been withdrawn by it’s developers.

Ms Flint, the government’s housing minister, said the announced deadline of October for the sites to be selected would be slipping until December or even next January.
She also stressed it had never been stated by her there would be exactly ten sites finally selected.

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The Curborough Consortium has withdrawn its bid following talks with the Department for Communities and Local Government last week.
However, the Consortium said it remained committed to the principles behind the Government’s controversial eco-town agenda and still wants to develop the Fradley Airfield site near Lichfield in Staffordshire.

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