We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest London news every morning. Eco has become a prefix which, when attached to any other word, imbues it with an automatic moral authority.

THE Government consultation paper ‘Eco-Towns, Living a Greener Future’ describes eco-towns as the following: Eco-towns are intended to be a combined response to the three challenges of climate change, ...

An eco-town described as the UK's "most sustainable development" is moving closer to being occupied. The first residents are expected to move into North West Bicester later this year. Planning ...

Terry Farrell has won consent for the first phase of its reworked plans application for an eco-town at Northwest Bicester Cherwell District Council granted detailed planning permission for 393 new ...

Hamphire, Norfolk, Cornwall and Oxfordshire look set to be the first four counties to receive national funding to develop sustainable eco-towns under the Government's widely-publicised programme.

In a country where over 80% of residents live in public housing, a government commitment to sustainable urban design could have huge implications. And when it’s a tropical country where convenience ...

The Government was forced into an embarrassing climbdown today after it unveiled watered-down plans for just four ‘flagship’ eco-towns. Gordon Brown had pledged to create up to 10 of the green ...

Campaigners today lost their High Court challenge over the Government's eco-towns project, but vowed to carry on their protest. A judge rejected their complaint that there had been a failure to ...

Frank meets resort manager Jon Peels to learn about the Marriott’s eco-friendly practices. Frank meets resort manager Jon Peels to learn about the Marriott’s eco-friendly practices. It’s the first ...

When Rachael and Simon Mortimer first went to look around the newly built Cambourne development in Cambridgeshire three years ago, what impressed them most was the network of cycle paths and the ...

Construction of the first phase of a new "eco-town" in Oxfordshire will start by the end of March. Land to the north west of Bicester has been earmarked for an initial 393 homes by 2017. The complete ...