Allen Fleckney
Atlantic News
Housing Minister is set to announce funding for the proposed eco-town at St Austell this morning..
Monday, February 8th 2010 08:30
St Austell plans to share £60 million pounds with three other eco town schemes
Six hundred "eco-show homes" are to be built to allow people to "test drive" green living
This week the Housing minister, John Healey, will announce the start of building work on the properties in towns near to the four sites earmarked for Britain's first zero-carbon developments.
Work will start next year on a further 10,000 eco-homes that will be for sale in the areas.
Last year, Mr Healey announced the first four sites, from an original shortlist of 15, would be in St Austell, Whitehill-Bordon in Hampshire, Rackheath in Norfolk and North West Bicester in Oxfordshire.
There will be just 10,000 homes in total, for 30,000 people, within five years, a third of these will be kept as affordable homes.
