Councils may be powerless on eco towns

Jun 18 2008 | Post Comment

Councils finding themselves under pressure to grant planning permission for eco towns are right to be suspicious of an initiative which is so closely linked to the Government push for record levels of house building. While West Midlands local authorities are already being told, against their wishes, to plan for some 420,000 new homes by 2027, they are now also faced with the possibility of two entirely new towns, supposedly exemplars of sustainability, in locations that have previously been ruled out for large-scale development. Read