So where and what the heck is "Mersey Heartlands Eco-Town" then?? :confused:

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/property/article/180763/Possible_ecotowns.html
... The CPRE has published a shortlist of possible 'eco-towns' which the Prime Minister is due to announce next month, and where 100,000 eco houses will be built.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Holly Kirkwood
Next month, Gordon Brown has announced that he will name five 'eco-towns' in England, where zero carbon developments will be built, ...
CPRE's list of likely eco town candidates is below:
... NORTH WEST
3 Mersey Heartlands (Wirral)
4 Carrington (Greater Manchester)
5 Nantwich (Cheshire) ...

Might be a-part of the new housing being built as part of the Urban Renewal scheme which is taking place in Egremont, Birkenhead and Tranmere.

The Nantwich one is been stopped due to local opposition.

Peel again...


http://www.scouseveg.co.uk/2008/02/29/mersey-docks-eco-town/

Wirral Waters ay!

I think before they start making a c****-up of the docks, a workable plan for the Town Centre is needed; Birkenhead is dying a sad and lonely death and nobody seems to be doing a cats whisker about it!

Wirral Waters ay!

I think before they start making a c****-up of the docks, a workable plan for the Town Centre is needed; Birkenhead is dying a sad and lonely death and nobody seems to be doing a cats whisker about it!

If Wirral Waters comes to light that will be the centre of Birkenhead.

You are right John, the locals are up in arms about having a new town around here. The have built Nantwich up with some much new property since I,ve lived here in the last eight years and on top of that they want to build this entire new town around this lovely rural setting. The traffic has doubled on the main road as it is. We will have lost our haven and our peace and we don,t want that.

We,ll pass on this one and let you have our town to join onto your Wirral one, have it on us.:PDT_Piratz_26:

You are right John, the locals are up in arms about having a new town around here. The have built Nantwich up with ...
Well neither Nantwich nor Birkenhead were shortlisted. Cheers and Boos.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7327717.stm

In fact neither anywhere in the North-East region nor North-West region were selected despite reported promises by Brown that there would be at least one from each England region.
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/property/article/180763/Possible_ecotowns.html

However, Pennbury in Leicestershire was shortlisted and the locals there are up in arms about it and determined to prevent it happening one way or another. I don't doubt the locals have a few tactics for making the developers wish they had never heard of Pennbury.

Eco-towns shortlist:-
1. Bordon, Hampshire
2. Coltishall, Norfolk
3. Curborough, Staffordshire
4. Elsenham, Essex
5. Ford, West Sussex
6. Hanley Grange, Cambridgeshire
7. Imerys, nr St Austell, Cornwall
8. Leeds city region, West Yorkshire
9. Manby, Lincolnshire
10. Marston Vale and New Marston, Bedfordshire
11. Middle Quinton, Warwickshire
12. Pennbury, Leicestershire
13. Rossington, South Yorkshire
14. Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire
15. Weston Otmoor, Oxfordshire
Source: Department of Communities and Local Government via BBC
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This is the reference of where and when Brown promised to put at least one eco-town in the North-West:- At the Labour Party conference in October 2007, Gordon Brown, who was by then Prime Minister, told delegates ‘And for the first time in nearly half a century we will show the imagination to build new towns - eco-towns with low and zero carbon homes. And today because of the response we have received we are announcing that instead of just five new eco towns, we will now aim for ten eco towns ---- building thousands of new homes in every region of the country.’ (Emphasis supplied) - Welching on this promise will cost him votes. Traditional areas of strong Labour Party support, the people of the North-East and North-West will not appreciate being entirely left out.