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Weston eco town plans take step forward

9:52am Thursday 3rd April 2008

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The prospect of a massive 15,000-home eco town development in Weston-on-the-Green near Bicester took a step forward today, after it was included on a list of potential national sites.

The Government has drawn up a list of potential eco town locations, dubbed "Brown's Town's".

The parents of former Oxfordshire tennis star Tim Henman have spearheaded the fight against the plans.

Anthony Henman, 67, fears the village would be ruined by the proposed development and has formed the Weston Front campaign group.

He said: "If we wanted to live in a town we would go to Oxford, Banbury or Bicester but we don't. We love village life, the small close-knit community and the open fields."

However, Ed Turner, the deputy leader of Oxford Labour group, said: "The principle is a good one and it will provide more housing and extra infrastructure.

"And it will boost the rail link between Oxford, Bicester and London - that is an exciting prospect."

Plans to build a 5,000-home development at the disused Shipton Quarry site near Kidlington failed to make it on to the list.

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Foxy, Oxford says...
10:03am Thu 3 Apr 08

'Eco Town@ - did you know that term does NOT include any green space, including allotments, park space or fields. Why was the disued quarry space not utilised? - Ah, for further development of another non eco town most likely. How can anything be eco about digging up more green lungs? This goverment wants to keep adding more people to the country and ridicicule the public by treating us as thick - trying to sell the idea of eco, that is most definatly not. Unless you make all who live there travel by bike, foot or rail - ABSOUTELY NO CARS, have huge back gardens to grow your own food and all plant a tree to help carbon dioxide emissions be reduced. How on earth can you build such a huge town in the green lung, call it eco and not include any green????? This country has lost its head.

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DanOxford, says...
10:50am Thu 3 Apr 08

800,000 Eastern European economic migrants; assume 4 per house = 200,000 houses needed, divided by 15,000 (the number of houses proposed on this development)= 13 new towns of this size needed.

How many new towns anounced today? 13.

Gordon Brown dismisses a Peers Report saying there is little benefit to this migration for most people, and is likely to push house prices 10% higher than they would have been without mass immigration.

So we're losing our green spaces so that immigarnts can benefit themselves, employers and landlords.

You do the maths...

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Educated, Oxford says...
10:51am Thu 3 Apr 08

Actually, you'll find that it does include green space. There is a mandated minimum of 1 acre of parkland per 100 house, and developers will be encouraged to include more (and most have indicated they will). Try looking at the facts, and realising that there are more people in the world than just you who need a home.

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alan page, says...
11:11am Thu 3 Apr 08

Wouldn't worry about Dan. His drug use brings on these hallucinatory, paranoid outbursts from time to time.

He's just trippin out man!! The other day it was mass swarms of Arabs on horseback capering down the Cowley Road.

Today its greasy eastern europeans that have got him trapped.

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Peter in Botley, says...
11:40am Thu 3 Apr 08

You're a bit behind the news here - look at BBC website it is NOT on the shortlist !

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Fox, Oxford says...
11:51am Thu 3 Apr 08

It was quite clearly stated on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 that these new eco towns DO NOT include green land. Educated - where do you have this other information from please? Also i am well aware people need homes, I would have to be living on a remote island to not know - I see building everywhere and it is the most talked about topic, however, this is never ending with more people coming here, more people living on their own etc and you need to apprecaite that everybodys quality of life suffers whether you give them a home or not, if you dont do it properly. I think you are bing a bit blunt here - stating obvious facts, but there are HUGE problems here that are not ever being addressed by the governments.


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Tasha, Witney says...
11:59am Thu 3 Apr 08

Dan, that was a fantastic one. I am keeping note of how you can turn every story into an ‘immigration is bad’ story. I hope one day you are in need of hospital treatment and have your life saved by these ‘evil immigrants’.

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anon @ SA, SA says...
1:15pm Thu 3 Apr 08

Wow, 15,000 houses. This put the 1,000 for Upper Heyford in to perspective and theyhave been trying for years to get that approved.

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Educated, oxford says...
2:40pm Thu 3 Apr 08

I was generally aware of the extra green space from the start, but a quick google search see's it referred to in Sky News :

http://news.sky.com/

skynews/article/0,,9

1211-1311591,00.html



the Eco Towns prospectus
http://www.communiti

es.gov.uk/documents/

housing/pdf/ecotowns



bbc news
http://news.bbc.co.u

k/1/hi/uk/7266701.st

m

Google for "eco towns parkland" to see more or take a look at some of the plans submitted.

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Zacharias Ziegla, Rose Hill says...
9:24pm Thu 3 Apr 08

Despite the damning evidence or the Lords' report, Brown gets up in Parliament, refuses to accept most of it, and then arrogantly proceeds to announce plans for yet more immigrants. More immigrant-added misery for the most crime-ridden, densely populated country in Europe. Presumably the immigrants will return the favour for all those lovely parklands by voting Labour at the next general election. Hence the need for new towns eco or otherwise.

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Mr Ison, England says...
9:31pm Thu 3 Apr 08

Bin Laden did not do the trade towers.

The nation wreckers did.

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