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Tesco pulls out of eco-towns project at Hanley Grange PDF Print E-mail
The supermarket chain, which owns 80 per cent of the land, was providing most of the financial backing for an eco-town with 7,000 homes at Hanley Grange, near Cambridge. But the project has been heavily opposed by local campaigners and all the surrounding councils. Yesterday Tesco pulled the plug.
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Tesco withdraws bid for Cambridgeshire eco-town PDF Print E-mail

Supermarket giant is the latest bidder to pull out of Gordon Brown's initiative, after proposals were opposed by local planners

Supermarket Tesco has withdrawn its bid to build one of the Gordon Brown’s eco-towns on the Hanley Grange site near Cambridge.

The bid, to build a 6,500-home eco-town, was unanimously opposed by local planning authorities, which said growth should instead be focused on other expansion areas planned around Cambridge and the 10,000-home public private joint venture Northstowe.

 
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Proposal for eco town abandoned PDF Print E-mail
But Tesco said the firm was now dropping the eco-town plan and would look at some form of housing development through the ordinary planning process.
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Another eco-town bites the dust PDF Print E-mail
Campaigners against eco-towns are celebrating after Tesco abandoned its plans to create one of Gordon Brown's controversial green settlements.
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Is the eco-town coalition collapsing? PDF Print E-mail
Ok, so Tesco's announcement that they're dropping plans to construct an eco-town at Hanley Grange, Cambridgeshire, was couched in diplomatic terms ("We think the proposal had very good prospects of succeeding under the government's Eco Town initiative", they said). But it's hard not to regard their actions as a sign that confidence in eco-towns is dwindling.
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