What’s Next: Jolly Old Eco-land
What’s Next: Jolly Old Eco-land
Come 2016, the ideal English country home may no longer be the thatch-roofed cottage or grand manor house so many of us have come to know. Instead, it may be the brand-new home a few hills over, in one of 10 government-mandated “ecotowns”— developments of 5,000 to 20,000 carbon-neutral houses that Prime Minister Gordon Brown hopes will ease England’s acute housing shortage.
According to the government’s latest vision for the towns, residents of all ethnicities, ages, and incomes will walk or cycle to newly created jobs, schools, and shops. If they must commute by train…
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