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    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2007
     
    New Eco village ---- sounds great.

    But will it work? Socially, environmentally? Realistically?

    Remember shared oil tanks on estates with meters to each house? Didn't work in my town, too many rows. Tower blocks -- same story by and large

    Is it carbon neutral? Belching out wood smoke untreated while it is working and when it breaks down then what?

    Seems to me more like a marketing exercise and not enough like building for the future.

    What green features will these big builder houses have? Rainwater recycling you cry -- OK great what else?
    • CommentAuthorskywalker
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2007
     
    What new eco village tony!

    Give us a link.

    S.
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    If HMG wants eco-villages, they should alter the planning system to allow groups of people to buy up a few hundred acres and design and build their own communties with communal woodlands and farmlands and with their own renewable energy systems. These could be allowed to expand organically over time. They could, for example, use an existing set of farm buildings as a nucleus. A grass roots led ruralisation of the population would be make for happier people living in a more localised and sustainable way in my view.

    If we go for centrally planned model settlements they will just end up like eco-theme parks. The inhabitants will be thrown together with no sense of place or history. They won't be good places to live.
    • CommentAuthorskywalker
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2007
     
    What they mean by eco isn't neccesarily what we mean. I remember being asked to attend a meeting on a very large development as an urban ecologist to provide guidance on how best to provide for some very considerable wildlife interest found nearby. and how to integrate the devolopment with the wider landscape. I then sat through a presentation by a landscape architect who explaied to the amassed group that ecology wasn't all about wildlife but about artistic balance, space and form (largely comprising pyramids covered in grass, bits of blue grass and stainless steel sculptures). Following that the 'host' then said 'so I don't want any talk about bat bricks, water voles or ******* great crested newts'. Surprisingly I, and others, persued the concept of ecological consideration within the development for a number of years and had some measure of success. Then along came a star designer ... It's all too painfull!

    So glad not to live in 'The Gateway' anymore'.

    So we may be gratefull if they include rainwater harvesting. Be even happier if they fit the meagure insulation properly and astonished if they get much further.

    Other than that I'm feeling quite positive today!

    S.
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2007
     
    2000 "eco homes" on the old "Hanham hall hospital" site near Bristol has the go ahead as our first eco village.

    Apparently the will find that many people who dont want/have/own cars as it will be bicycles only!

    Sounds like my thread "cycle-ville" must have inspired them!! :neutral:
    • CommentAuthorbiffvernon
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2007
     
    It will have it's own rainwater harvesting system (which might be usefull if they were building it somewhere with a water shortage like Folkstone).

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