An alliance of civic, environmental and transport bodies has launched a campaign urging a so-called ‘smart growth’ approach for new large-scale development.
Organisations involved include the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Campaign for Better Transport and Civic Voice.
The alliance believes that new development should blend the well-designed family terraced housing with gardens of a typical British Edwardian suburb with cutting-edge practice from across the world, such as recently developed ‘eco-suburbs’ in Freiburg (Germany) and Stockholm.
Such developments:
· provide energy-efficient housing at high residential densities
· reuse brown field land as much as possible
· are easily linked to town and city centres by public transport
· are designed so that walking or cycling is the norm for everyday travel
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