Is the BARD Campaign against the principle of Eco-towns?
Not if these new towns truly are ecologically sustainable. However, we believe that the building of new towns of around 6000 houses in rural areas utterly negates the proposed eco-friendliness of the scheme. We believe the ‘eco’ tag is purely the Government’s effort at rebranding in order to circumvent traditional planning laws and bulldoze their way over local town planning procedure to force the building of more and more new homes that they now claim the country urgently requires, irrespective of local need. The truth about the proposed New Town housing is that Stratford District doesn’t need them (already met its new build targets), Stratford’s roads can’t take them (already suffocating Stratford & would do likewise to surrounding villages), the site’s land can’t absorb the displaced water as a result of them (causing fast-water run-off ie major flooding), the area can’t provide jobs for the new town residents needing them (Stratford District is an area of full employment), public t
