Category Archives: Micheldever Station Eco-Town

Micheldever Station Eco Town Success

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Martin

One piece of good news today. The Government has made it clear that Micheldever Station is not going to be one of its new eco-towns.

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Un-eco eco-towns

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Martin

A good article in Saturday’s Guardian by Tristram Hunt on the ‘un-eco eco-towns’:
All too predictably, Britain’s leading developers are using the eco-town template to dust off long-rejected proposals and re-submit shoddy housing schemes.

The potential loss of countryside around Micheldever is …

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Micheldever Station Eco-Town – still a bad idea – and still not eco

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Martin

I went to the annual general meeting of the Dever Society last night. Steve Tilbury, the Head of Operations at Winchester City Council was there and made an excellent and informative presentation. As part of it, he referenced an …

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Micheldever Eco-Town: not eco at all

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Martin

The Dever Society has launched an online petition against the proposed Micheldever Station Eco-Town.
Despite the Town’s supposed environmental credentials, I’m also opposed and have signed the petition, primarily because the Town’s environmental credentials are a sham: the proposal is not …

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