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  Link   Interview with the housing minister
BBC Politics show interviews Caroline Flint, the housing minister. "these eco towns will not only provide for local communities, they'll be a show case of what is possible nationally but also internationally."
  Link   All parties unite to fight plan for eco-town
GOVERNMENT eco-town plans have been blasted by every Cambridgeshire county councillor. In an unprecedented show of solidarity, politicians from all parties voted to write to ministers to express "serious concerns" over the proposal.
  Link   Sites on shortlist cynically target our voters, Tories claim
"Ministers faced charges of political opportunism last night after revealing that 12 of the 15 locations proposed for new eco-towns would be in Conservative-held constituencies."
  Link   Down with Brown towns
"But the Government has already told housebuilders that all new homes must be zero carbon by 2016, so why do we need eco-towns?"
  Link   Simon Jenkins on Eco towns
"Britain has plenty of potential eco-towns. They are called London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle, to name a few. They conform to every one of Flint's declared objectives. They have an infrastructure of utilities,
  Link   Campaign for Better Transport
"Campaign for Better Transport has a man on the inside. Our executive director Stephen Joseph is one of 12 expert advisors on the Government's eco-towns challenge panel. He's determined to stop eco-towns from being built in unsuitable places, and he'
  Link   Campaign moves into Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson and other Top Gear presenters sign the Stop Hanley Grange petition.
  Link   Lord Rogers criticism of eco towns
"Eco-towns, he argues, will damage both rural and urban environments, while increasing road congestion and carbon emission." Lord Rogers' designs include the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Lloyd's of London, the Welsh assembly building.
 
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