New eco towns

July 19th, 2009

The new location of the four eco towns has been released.  The location have been confirmed as Rackheath, (Norfolk), north-west Bicester (Oxfordshire), Whitehill Bordon, (East Hants), and the China Clay Community (Cornwall).  This is just the first four as the Government wants 10 in total.


I am very suspicious about the new eco towns, I feel that the idea to Government is putting across to us is an idealised idea and nothing like what will actually happen.  They are supposed to be carbon neutral but I doubt that will actually happen.  The reason I think this is that the houses are going to be packed full of the latest technology to make them green.  The technology will mean that it is expensive to live in an eco house and as it is new it will be very trendy.  To afford to live in these houses you will have to have a lot of money, the type of people that feel the need to drive their only child to school in a \huge, polluting 4 by 4s.


Schemes never work out how you think they will.  I work in a paper free school, which means that every one has a computer and we get through more paper than I ever thought possible.


At the moment it is hard to think how all those houses are ever going to be a good idea.  With the UK property market dead at the moment, extra houses will mean that it would hard for someone looking to get a fast house sale.


I am quite interested in eco towns as I am worried that they might decide that near me would be a good idea.  I can imagine that it would be quite detrimental to the area around it.  Eco towns are going to have very good public transport which means lots more buses.  The extra buses need to come from some where which means either an increase in price for everyone or a reduction in services for local places.


Maybe I am just being negative about it all but I just feel the money would be better invested in improving the property we have already instead of building loads of extra houses using all the polluting construction machines and extra resources.  Looking at property blogs the opinion seems pretty split.

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