Explore Challenges
- 7 March 2012: Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
Housing in England
five
new eco towns to be built by 2016
[DCLG, 3 April 2008]
ten
new eco towns to be built by 2020
[DCLG, 3 April 2008]
twenty
Urban Regeneration Companies across England
[English Partnerships]
21 square miles
countryside lost to development each year, housing accounts for around half of this
[CPRE analysis of DCLG LUCS data, 2006]
40 miles
length of the Thames Gateway which will include 160,000 new homes
240,000
carbon neutral homes planned in eco towns
[BBC, 3 April 2008]
240,000
empty homes in London, the South East, and East of England
[CPRE analysis of DCLG housing statistics]
255,000
English families who own a second home in England
[DCLG, July 2006]
3 million
New homes the Gov't is committed to build by 2020
[DCLG, 3 April 2008]