The country is going to turn green with the Government releasing the first four locations for the eco towns that they want to build. They are going to be spread from Norfolk to Cornwall.
I am very suspicious about the new eco towns, I feel that the idea to Government is putting across to us is an idealised idea and nothing like what will actually happen. They are supposed to be carbon neutral but I doubt that will actually happen. The reason I think this is that the houses are going to be packed full of the latest technology to make them green. I think that all the technology will make them expensive to buy and as it is new it will be very trendy. To afford to live in these houses you will have to have a lot of money, the type of people that feel the need to drive their only child to school in a huge, polluting 4 by 4s.Schemes never work out how you think they will. I work in a paper free school, which means that every one has a computer and we get through more paper than I ever thought possible.At the moment it is hard to think how all those houses are ever going to be a good idea. With the UK property market unstable at the moment, extra houses will mean that it would hard for someone looking to sell their house fast.I am quite interested in eco towns as I am worried that they might decide that near me would be a good idea. I can imagine that it would be quite detrimental to the area around it. Eco towns are going to have very good public transport which means lots more buses. The extra buses need to come from some where which means either an increase in price for everyone or a reduction in services for local places.Maybe I am just being negative about it all but I just feel the money would be better invested in improving the property we have already instead of building loads of extra houses using all the polluting construction machines and extra resources. The property blogs seem pretty split on the subject.