What is an ecotown
- Created by: Zoe Miles
- Created on: 22-04-13 13:08
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- What is an ecotown?
- up to 20,000 low carbon homes
- the first four will be build in 2016
- Whitehill Bordon, Hampshire
- northwest Bicester, Oxfordshire
- Rackheath, Norfolk
- China Clay Community Sceme near St Austell, Cornwall
- each ecotown should be carbon-neautral
- home will be south faceing to capture the heat from the sun
- will havephotovoltaic cells on the roof to produce their own electricity
- town will have their own wind turbines
- plenty of green spaces and cycle lanes, fewer roads but good rail connections
- good links to surrounding towns and citites for jobs, transport and services
- 30% of homes should be affordable
- local primary school, secondry school, business, shops, leisure facilities should be provided
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