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TCPA issues green houses guide for eco-towns
16/11/09
Edited by Tom Bardsley. Residential property built in eco-towns must provide quality, choice and affordability as well as environmentally-friendly features if they are to attract the families needed to create sustainable communities, a new paper has claimed.
The report from the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) said homes will have to appeal to potential residents as much for their "utility, location and setting" as their green credentials.
Developers of eco-towns will have to deliver a choice of quality housing types that help to promote good health in the community through air and noise quality, allotments and recreational space. They will also have to foster a sense of community and security, while ensuring people have a stake in deciding the future of their town.
TCPA chief executive Gideon Amos said: "Aspiring to live in an eco-town will come from decent homes in good quality environments that combine the best features of town and country."
In July, the government gave the go-ahead to the development of the UK's first eco-towns at Whitehill Bordon in Hampshire, north-west Bicester in Oxfordshire, Rackheath in Norfolk and the China Clay Community project in Cornwall.
