THE shortlist for a series of "eco-towns" to be built across the country was unveiled by the Government today.
The top 15 bids for the low-carbon, environmentally friendly towns includes up to 15,000 homes at a controversial site in Leicestershire and settlements planned for former Ministry of Defence sites and disused airfields.
But other proposals which sparked protests, including one planned for Grovewood, Derbyshire, have been rejected by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
The full shortlist, which will be whittled down to up to ten towns which will finally get the go-ahead, is:
- Pennbury, Leicestershire
- Manby and Strubby, Lincolnshire
- Curborough, Staffordshire
- Middle Quinton, Warwickshire
- Bordon-Whitehill, Hampshire
- Weston Otmoor, Oxfordshire
- Ford, West Sussex
- Imerys China Clay Community, Cornwall
- Rossington, South Yorkshire
- Coltishall, Norfolk
- Hanley Grange, Cambridgeshire
- Marston Vale and New Marston, Bedfordshire
- Elsenham, Essex
- Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire
- Leeds City Region, Yorkshire.
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