Media Coverage for the 250 New Towns Club
We aim to identify locations for 50 New Towns every year, which is nearly a rate of one every week. We want to complete a list of 250 locations in five years. To do this we need to get our aims across to the public through the media, and welcome suggestions for locations.
Radio...
Winifred Robinson
interviews Hugh Pearman and Ian Abley You and
Yours BBC Radio 4 15.06.2011
Feature is 28 minutes into the programme, and ends at 38 minutes.
Ian Abley argues with Hugh Pearman, Editor of the RIBA Journal, about the prospect of housing the growing population of Britain, which in 2011 is around 60,000,000 people in 26,000,000 households, living in 9% of the land. Hugh argues that population growth is hard to predict, that households should be better distributed into the under-occupied existing housing stock, sharing more, refurbishing more, all to prevent further unsustainable development of the countryside. Ian argues that housing should be built strategically to satisfy household growth, developing a further 1.4% of Britain by building 500,000 new and replacement homes a year in 250 locations between 2013 and 2033, when the population will reach 70,000,000. Hugh wants "hamlets" on redundant farms, while Ian wants to set the British public free to build on an unprecedented scale.
Julian Worricker
interviews Grant Shapps, Kate Henderson, and Ian Abley You and Yours BBC Radio 4, Archive
09.09.2010
Feature is 26 minutes into the programme, and ends at 41 minutes.
Professional Press...
Anthony Fyson New Town building initiative that trumps government on localist
ambitions Planning 24.09.2010
Television...
None yet identified
The Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger Map key shown with England's Green Belt superimposed
Zero Eco-Towns 28.03.2011
20 unbuilt Eco-Towns...
| Graded Eco-Towns | Promoter | Homes | |
| Pennbury | B | Co-operative Estates | 15,000 |
| Manby | A | East Lindsey District Council | 5,000 |
| Curborough | B | Curborough Consortium | 5,000 |
| Middle Quinton | B | St Modwen and The Bird Group | 6,000 |
| Whitehill-Bordon | B | East Hampshire District Council | 5,500 |
| Weston Otmoor | C | Parkridge | 15,000 |
| Shipton | B | Kilbride Properties Ltd | 3,000 |
| Bicester | B | P3Eco Bicester | 5,000 |
| Ford | B | Vision Group and Enterprise Hub | 5,000 |
| St Austell | B | Imerys Minerals Ltd | 5,000 |
| Rossington | B | Rossington Ecotown Partnership | 15,000 |
| Coltishall | C | Coltishall Group PLC | 5,000 |
| Rackheath | A | Building Partnerships Norwich | 5,000 |
| Hanley Grange | B | Jarrow Investments | 8,000 |
| Marston | B | Gallagher Estates | 15,000 |
| Elsenham | B | Fairfield Partnership | 5,000 |
| Kingston | B | Banks Development | 6,000 |
| Cotgrave Place | C | Crown Golf | 5,000 |
| Newton | B | Newton Nottingham LLP | 6,000 |
| Leeds City | B | Leeds City Council | 20,000 |
| Total - Assuming all 20 Eco-Towns were fully built | 159,500 | ||
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