The Art of Building a Garden City

England, including those former eco-towns.

The group provides political support and

encourages a sharing of knowledge and

best practice through seminars, workshops,

study visits, parliamentary meetings and

newsletters.

Back to the Future –

From Eco-towns to

Garden Cities

The year 2010 brought with it a new

coalition government, who were quick to

distance themselves from Labour’s eco-

towns programme. The public opposition

to the schemes had made them too

politically sensitive, and an easy target for

criticism. They were also considered too

top-down and therefore inconsistent with

the secretary of state, Eric Pickles’, localism

agenda. This came ...