23rd Jul 2008
The government’s approach to eco-towns is “deeply flawed” and wide open to legal challenges, the Local Government Association has warned, but the Department for Communities and Local Government has poured cold water over the claims.
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Householders wanting to live in Gordon Brown’s pioneering eco-towns face service charges of more than £500 a year on top of their annual council tax bill. Developers in several of the 13 proposed sites are planning to levy annual charges for subsidised bus travel and management costs to be paid to a local community trust.
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Campaigners against an eco-town at Hanley Grange have warned the proposal could still go ahead - despite the Wellcome Trust announcing it would not sell land to developers.
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17th Jul 2008
Fife residents would install more renewable technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels on their homes if they knew it would lead to lower fuel bills, research by one of the country’s leading environmental organisations has revealed.
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Littlehampton Town Council has voted to oppose the proposed Ford Eco-Town, following a heated debate. The full council met on Thursday, June 29 with members agreeing by a 12-three majority to object to the scheme on a number of grounds, including a lack of transport links and concerns over how “eco” the town would really be.
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Two more major organisations have waded into the debate over plans for an eco-town at the former RAF Coltishall airbase by voicing fresh concerns. With an announcement due within the next six months on whether the ambitious proposals will make the cut, Reporter Kim Briscoe takes a look at the support and opposition for the plan.
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27th Jun 2008
Plans to build an eco-town near Manby have been axed - to the delight of shocked protestors. East Lindsey District councillors rejected a potential multi-million pound Government investment scheme to build 5,000 homes on the former RAF site. At last night’s full council meeting, they had been asked to give the go ahead for a £100,000 Government-funded feasibility study into the scheme - but instead voted to withdraw interest in the project entirely.
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Thursday 11.20am - Following the decision to scrap plans to build an eco town near Louth East Lindsey District Council has said it still needs to tackle the lack of affordable housing. The council will now develop work with its local partners to address the key issues of affordable housing, skills, investment and coastal flood defences.
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A Lincolnshire council shortlisted for one of the Government’s controversial eco-towns has withdrawn its application. The proposed towns - ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 homes - have been hailed by ministers as the future, but critics claim they would be “simply unsustainable”.
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