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News Release 4th June 2008COMMONS DEBATE ON ECO TOWNSSpeaking in a House of Commons debate initiated by Anne McIntosh MP on eco-towns yesterday (Tuesday 3rd June), Michael Fabricant said, among other things, (taken from Hansard):- "She has mentioned that the Government should make a commitment that there will be consultation and agreement with local authorities. Is she surprised to learn that the proposed eco-town on the Curborough site in Fradley-which incidentally will not be eco in any event because by the time it is ready all buildings will have to be ecologically sound-has no support, either from the West Midlands regional assembly or from Lichfield district council? Moreover, it will cause a huge strain on the local infrastructure and will be ecologically unsound. It will not even be an eco-town. "If a town is to be ecologically sound, it must take everything into account, including, as my hon. Friend has pointed out in her excellent speech, distance to work, transport facilities, whether there are adequate roads, whether there is rail and whether there is all the other infrastructure required. Even if a town were ecologically sound, it might be made unsound as a whole by virtue of the fact that people had to move to and from that town. Have all those factors been taken into account? They certainly have not been at Curborough." |
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