COULD more new towns spring up from Cambridgeshire fields if plans for thousands of extra homes are given the go-ahead? ........ Tesco scrapped its plans for the Hanley Grange eco-town, near Hinxton, following a storm of protest from residents and criticism of the scheme's environmental sustainability. .........

But the sites have remained part of the planning landscape, with both featured on an EERA list set out in November when the assembly asked developers to nominate any sites they would be bringing forward.

The locations of four new "eco-towns" have been announced as part of scaled-down government plans.

They are Rackheath, Norfolk; north-west Bicester, Oxfordshire; Whitehill Bordon, East Hants; and the China Clay Community near St Austell, Cornwall.