Just as the inquiry starts for the Ford Eco Town here in Sussex, the death knell has been sounded for the Government's flagship sustainability-cum-housing project - and it's Janet Street Porter who has sounded it.
The nation's favourite yoof TV guru (or something) has condemned Eco Towns as a 'rural version of the Poll Tax' and 'vandalism dressed up in a trendy green coat'. Unsurprisingly, the people behind one of the schemes (which has now merged the other existing project), including Wates and Redrow Homes, disagree.
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