FORD_ECO TOWN: Eco-town group to resume meetings

Arun District Council is planning to resume its special select committee meetings into the Ford eco-town.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Dec 2008, 15:31 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:01 BST

The committee, made up of volunteer councillors, is set to resume its sittings early in 2009.

It held a week of hearings last May and June at which its members quizzed witnesses on both sides of the eco-town argument.

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The committee decided that the proposal was flawed. This decision was backed by all councillors and passed on that judgment to then housing minister Caroline Flint.

Arun wants to reconvene the committee to discuss the latest government documents about the matter and make new recommendations to all councillors.

A separate development strategy which the council is preparing indicates that a settlement the size of an eco-town at Ford is likely to be the least sustainable option for development in the district.

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