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The housing minister, Caroline Flint, said the new towns would help to tackle climate change, as well as providing affordable new housing. "We have a housing shortage in this country and that's why we need to build more homes," she told BBC News 24."But we also need to think about sustainable homes in sustainable communities.
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How Eco?
The largest will provide between 15,000 and 20,000 new homes, with officials saying the towns should be "zerocarbon" developments and should be exemplary in one area of sustainability, such as energy production or waste disposal.
They also want 30% to 40% of each eco-town to be allocated as affordable housing.
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The proposed eco-town would be sited to the south-east of Leicester, in Harborough District, lying between Evington, Thurnby, Houghtononthe-Hill, Great Glen and Oadby. It would include land currently used for Leicester Airport.
PennburyThe background
There are around 13,600 households on council housing waiting lists in the three districts adjacent to Pennbury, and there arent enough affordable homes available. Since 1999/2000, Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, and Leicester have lost almost 4,500 social rented homes through demolition and the Right to Buy, but only 1,250 new social rented homes have been provided. Current building rates in Leicestershire mean that there are over 500 fewer homes built per year to meet the new planned target
Looking at 20112016, when it is anticipated that Pennbury would begin to be constructed, the identified land for further development in 2007 would not be sufficient to build enough housing to achieve planned targets, or to meet the backlog of need in the county. Additional housing will have to come from other sources yet to be identified.
However, further land is needed to cater for housing requirements in Leicestershire, and it is unavoidable that some greenfield sites will have to be considered as fewer brownfield sites remain. The Pennbury site is not entirely greenfield, since it includes Leicester Airport and the former Stoughton Farm Park.
Local migrants moved from the city enjoys cycling in the countryside, you cant replace the natural countryside, young children like to play in the fields