Eco-town Update
Readers of today's Times newspaper will see what is claimed to be a vision of what the Government sees as the new eco-town concept.
It seems hard for me as a district resident of nearly 40 years to see who will want to live in a town where residents will have to park on the edge of the ec-town, and pay to drive their cars out of the eco-twon car park at peak times.
Houses will not have garages and homes will be so close together it will feel like you can't breath.
The estimated cost per house could be as much as £30,000 higher than a conventional house. Forests surrounding towns will provide the fuel for biomass boilers and the the town will have it's own recycling plant and wind farm.
I would be interested to hear your views on whether you would like to live in an eco town, right next to a biomass boiler, recycling plant, windfarm, and large car parks.
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Wouldn't it be fantastic if local shops were valued over faceless supermarkets, if pubs and community centres were populated and if residents helped each other instead of walked from their houses to their cars and shut their doors on their neighbours.
All that would be needed for the eco town would be regular connections by public transport and bike paths to local towns and it would be fine by me.
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