The importance of landscape is neglected in the Government’s eco-towns plans, the Landscape Institute said this week.
Chair of the Landscape Institute Policy Committee Jon Lovell said eco-towns provided “an outstanding opportunity” but warned that the sustainability of the proposed eco-towns depended on the integration of landscape planning, design and management. He said that green space needed to be viewed as essential infrastructure – as equally as important as roads, services and other ‘grey’ infrastructure’ components.
SOURCE: Landscape Institute – Landscape failed in eco-town plans, says Landscape Institute.
