Property News · January 4, 2016

Vision of Ebbsfleet garden city for 65,000 struggles to take root


Critics including architect Richard Rogers have labelled the project unsustainable, fractured and incoherent An emerging vision for Britain’s first new garden city in more than a century should be scrapped, one of the country’s leading architects has said.In November, George Osborne announced more than £300m in public money to kickstart Ebbsfleet garden city in north Kent, but Richard Rogers, a leading architect and former government adviser on cities, said: “They shouldn’t be building down there. East London still has masses of brownfield land so why are we building 15 miles out? This is not a sustainable option.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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