Yeovil’s district council is hoping to secure a grant to build a 5,000 home eco town on the outskirts of the town.
The council has already been given permission for the master planning of the Urban Village at Stars Lane car park and the Glove Factory development, with an investment of £1.5million. The investment is going to be used up with £730,000 to be used to carry out master planning, and a further £750,000 will go towards the Foundry House project run by Zero C, to bring the development up to eco standards outlined by the government.
The South West Regional Spatial Strategy has stated that 11,400 homes should be built in and around Yeovil between 2006 and 2026, and this is the reason why the council is bidding for funding to make the eco-town possible.
The first four developments have been announced for such developments in Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Cornwall in July 2010.
Now authorities in Lincolnshire, Leeds, Coventry, Taunton and Yeovil are looking at potential sites.
In addition to the eco-town, which may or may not happen, there are currently three large-scale housing developments in Yeovil. |