Eco-towns are a government-sponsored programme of new towns to be built in England, which are intended to achieve exemplary standards of sustainability...
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formally incorporated into the conduct of local government Eco-towns, proposed programme of new towns in England See also Ecovillage, an ecologically sustainable...
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The Rackheath Eco-town is a proposal for just over 5,000 houses to be built in the Rackheath area, in Norfolk, within a mile of The Broads National Park...
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Minamata, Kumamoto (section Minamata Eco-Town)
2001, Minamata became an official Japanese Eco-town. In 2004 and 2005, Minamata won the Japanese Top Eco-City contest. The city is best known as the...
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Eco Park (or Prakriti Tirtha) is an urban park in New Town, Greater Kolkata, India. With an area of 480 acres (190 ha) (including a 104 acres (42 ha) waterbody...
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The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate populations...
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Brown's new eco-towns. Built on the former Hanham Hall Hospital site, the new village serves as a blueprint for Gordon Brown's proposed five eco-towns that will...
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Edward Garnier (section Pennbury eco-town)
and eventually withdrawn in April 2004. Garnier has raised the issue of eco-towns around 20 times in Parliament. One of these, Pennbury, housing 40,000...
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Bordon (category Eco-towns)
Bordon as one of its tentative Eco-towns in consultative, outline plans. This, dovetailed with the Town Council's 'Green Town Vision', would see the development...
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Middle Quinton (category Eco-towns)
ECO-TOWN". The document includes diagrams showing six phases of development over a fifteen-year period. The second round of consultation on eco-towns...
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Machine NATS Aeronautical Information Service BBC: 'Eco-towns' shortlist is revealed "New plan for eco-town showcased in secret". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved...
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submit proposals for new eco-towns. However, the City Region Partnership has considered the case for a free-standing eco town and concluded that it would...
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August 2008 Norfolk county council propose Rackheath Eco-town as the site for one of the new 'eco-towns'. During the autumn of 2008 the council suggested...
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ownership with shared equity schemes. He backed a proposal to build new eco-towns, each housing between 10,000 and 20,000 homeowners – up to 100,000 new...
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Local Government as one of the 10 eco-towns proposed for construction in the UK. Under the company's plans, 5,000 eco-homes would be built on former china...
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Dunsfold (section Eco-town expansion plan)
as one of the Brown Ministry's proposed "eco-towns". On 3 April 2008 Dunsfold Park was denied Eco-town status by Housing Minister, Caroline Flint. According...
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town selected as one of the then Labour government's proposed eco-towns. On 3 April 2008 Dunsfold Park was one of over 40 proposals denied eco-town status...
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Garden city movement (redirect from New garden cities and towns)
City and Garden Suburb principles to be applied to the present New Towns and Eco-towns in the United Kingdom. The campaign continued in 2013 with the publication...
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Northstowe (category New towns started in the 2010s)
that Northstowe had not been adopted as an eco-town because the planning application "predate[s] the eco-towns programme", and because it would not be zero-carbon...
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Bicester (category Market towns in Oxfordshire)
market town, garden town, and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in south-central England that also comprises an eco town development...
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Pennbury (category Eco-towns)
Pennbury was the working name given to a proposed eco-town of 15,000 to 20,000 new homes intended to be built on Leicester Airport, four miles from the...
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eco-municipality or eco-town is a local government area that has adopted ecological and social justice values in its charter. The development of eco-municipalities...
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Rushcliffe (category Eco-towns)
Its council is based in West Bridgford. The borough also includes the towns of Bingham and Cotgrave as well as numerous villages and surrounding rural...
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North West Bicester (category Eco-towns)
North West Bicester (NW Bicester) is one of four eco-towns that were originally given the green light by the government in 2009 to act as showcases for...
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Salhouse (section Rackheath Eco Town)
edu/AALT3/H6/CP40no764/bCP40no764dorses/IMG_1789.htm "New Rackheath eco-town plans go on show". Rackheath Eco-community. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011...
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Rossington (category Eco-towns)
South Yorkshire, England and is surrounded by countryside and the market towns of Bawtry and Tickhill. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire...
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Elsenham (category Eco-towns)
short-listed by the Government as a potential site for a 5,000 homes 'eco-town' development. Notable features include Elsenham Hall, the home of Sir Walter...
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design. Eco-cities and eco-towns have been studied to determine the societal benefits of creating more sustainable and ecological designs. Eco-cities allow...
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Lai Guochuan (redirect from Palm Eco-Town Development Company)
wealth through his position as general manager and shareholder of Palm Eco-Town Development Company, which developed from a small plant nursery business...
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SNUB (section Rackheath Eco-town)
many local residents in protesting heavily against the proposed Rackheath Eco-town, as they claim the plans are flawed and will lead to massive overdevelopment...
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