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What will it mean for you?
Archive - April 2008
The draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the East Midlands specifies that Leicestershire requires around 80,000 new homes by 2026. In the next eighteen months there is also likely to be an early review of the Regional Spatial Strategy in order to revise these figures further upwards in order to satisfy the requirements of the RSS Panel and meet the projected need for new homes.
There is a limit to how many homes can be delivered piecemeal through infilling within existing settlements or by building on the edge of the county’s existing towns and villages. Piecemeal expansion would put excessive strain on existing infrastructure and through outward expansion could lead to a loss of town or village identity.
By developing a new town, with the necessary infrastructure in place from the start as well as ensuring that the town meets the strict environmental criteria set out for eco-towns, Leicestershire’s villages can avoid unnecessary sprawl and benefit from all the facilities an eco-town will bring to the area.
And with the Co-operative Group’s values and principles, as well as its exceptional track record of environmental responsibility coupled with English Partnerships’ experience in sustainable communities who better than us to deliver the Eco-Town for Leicester?
What benefits will the eco-town bring?
To name but a few:
- New schools with places for children in local villages
- Stopping rat-runs that can clog up the villages
- More open space and public access to previously private land
- A large number of new jobs created close to where people live
- Thousands of affordable homes for the region, far exceeding current targets
- Pioneering ideas to be trialled throughout Leicestershire
- Local food production
- An increase in local health provision
- New infrastructure to help the congestion on the busy ‘A’ roads, such as Park & Rides
- Localised energy production, meaning more control for local people
- More wildlife for locals to enjoy. Some intensively farmed land will be replaced with green spaces