Comments on: Eco-Town Shortlist Unveiled

By: peetah

peetah — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:29:55 +0000

This may be old news but Campaign for Better Transport are interested and concerned about this issue. Please contact them at their website if you have not already heard about his and ask to be signed up to their e-letter on the subject.

By: FACT

FACT — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:23:19 +0000

*Please note that website is under development*

Dear all,
Please let me introduce myself. My name is Peter and I am the marketing coordinator for FACT (Fradley Against Curborough Town).

I read with interest that a lot’s of people all over the country want to stop the mindless creation of the Governments eco towns policy. Here in Lichfield a small historic city we face this challange. The lovely environment of rural North Lichfield is now under threat. I would like to reach out to anyone who may want to help us fight this cause.

If you would like any more information on the development then please mail me at peterjlennon@yahoo.com.

A summary of what is being proposed are 5,000 houses over 700 acres of land will be developed
The development will turn Lichfield into an Urban Sprawl
At the shortest point the boundary to North Lichfield will be only 1,000 metres

We would appreciate it if you could add your name to our petition even if it is by email, leaving your contact details to enable us to count your objection.

Anyone who wished to get involved in our group is most welcome; and also anyone who may just wish to make a kind contribution to help our group fight the development.

We do have some materials to share with anyone who is interested so please get in touch if you wish to help fight this 5,000 house town in Lichfield.

Many thanks
Peter Lennon
Marketing FACT

By: Kip

Kip — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:36:59 +0000

Dear Change Alley,
As a resident of Lidlington in the ‘Forest’ of Marston you can understand how ‘mildly upset’ I am at the eco proposals of O&H properties.
They paint a picture of a very bleak landscape, destroyed by years of quarrying, begging for a new lease of life.
How wrong they are.
We have green fields and farm land, village communities and lakes that support all manor of birds and wildlife.
We moved here 18 months ago as an ideal location for us to settle and raise our daughter.
We now face a building programme that consists of 15,000+ homes, many of which will be £1m lakeside residences and even more expensive hillside homes, warehousing and retail outlets.
O&H are trying to tell us that the 30,000+ people will be working locally,and not put any added cars on the road.
Ha! I’ve never heard such crap.
The governments housing ‘eco’ plan is a complete farce.
No small community should be forced into becoming part of such massive developments.
Protest now to help keep our villages and countryside. The only real ‘eco’ town is not to build it!
All the best
Kip.

By: alan packham

alan packham — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:55:26 +0000

Hi ,
I am particularly pleased that the proposed development at Micheldever won’t be going ahead. In my former life as an Agricultural Merchant I had cause to spend much time in the locality which is a particularly beautiful piece of Hampshire. Indeed I did a great deal of business with the owners of the proposed development land. I sincerely hope that this proposal is now dead and buried and that the area will be left in its current state for the future.

regards,
Alan

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:48:20 +0000

A full copy of the bid for the New Marston (Bedfordshire)proposal can be obtained from Greg.mitchell@gallagheruk.com. They say it will be also be available on their website “shortly”. This looks less imaginative than the Marston Vale bid by O&H properties and seems little more than an extension and “intensification” of their Wixams development south east of Bedford. It will add 40,00 population to Bedford/Kempston and will adjoin the existing urban area rather than create a “separate and distinct” community as required by government.

By: Anne Bond

Anne Bond — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:58:54 +0000

As a campaigning local resident of the Pennbury Eco Town,to begin with ,no one from the government( Cabinet) had the decency to come and look round this site, with all discussions between Co Op Govt and any other relevant Local Govt bodies being done behind closed doors( even continuing this process of closed door discussins now!!) and then Caroline Flint( stood outside Ideal Home Exhibition and announced the 15 Eco Sites shortlist) not even having the decency to use this Country’s democratic process,by ignoring our Democratically elected Ministers,this means announcing this in House of Commans.I invite anyone interested to come along and look at this picturesque site,with many attractions for Ramblers,Horse riding etc.you have an opportunity to attend a Rally on Sat 24th May ,to really see this is not about Nimbyism,but a general lack of forethought by all concerned!Go to Web Site Pennbury Eco Town for all details on the Campaign.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:39:50 +0000

Developers for Marston Vale are O and H Properties (www.davidlock.com/marstonvale. “New Marston” overlaps with this proposal and appears to be an extension of the Wixams new town – developer Gallagher Estates. I can find nothing published on the New Marston proposal. Further help anyone?

By: CPRE

CPRE — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:23:23 +0000

Thanks for linking to our advance briefing – just a quick note to say that we’ve put up an updated map which shows the outlines of the proposed eco-towns. You can view it by visiting http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/housing-and-urban-policy/housing-supply/housing-supply-what-cpre-is-doing and clicking on the link to our interactive map.

By: peetah

peetah — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:27:16 +0000

So will the Eco Town be called “Lark Rise or will it be Candleford”?

Hope you get a robust campaign going.

best

By: Robin Stafford Allen

Robin Stafford Allen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:25:38 +0000

Parkridge have said the Weston site is green and brown field site. The brown bit is a grass-only airfield used for gliding, prachuting, and farming, and the green bit is Green Belt, prime farmland, and is right over the top of a Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and run by BBOWT (was BBONT). This is beautiful land surrounded by creaking infrastructure (Junction 9 of M40, and A34 down through Oxford are already above capacity and we are about to see several hundred more houses built onto ‘our’ side of Bicester between it and Chesterton, and planning is going ahead for 1075 houses to the north at exUSAF base Upper Heyford.

New Towns have to be somewhere, but in our locality the Weston Otmoor is a cynical attempt to make money, is not supported by District or County Council, who assure us that the developers figures do not make financial sense for this development, and in my eyes, Upper Heyford airfield with concrete aircraft blast-bunkers and huge concrete runways is a far more sensible, truely Brown-field site that would accomodate most of the houseing proposed. Regretably alternatives are not considered, only a yes/no decision on these 15 sites…

Robin