Heathrow airport could be redeveloped as a Garden City with 800 self build homes, according to a new report by the Town & Country Planning Association.
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The visionary ‘Heathrow Garden City’ report, by former government adviser, Graeme Bell, suggests that rather than build a third runway, the five square mile airport site would be put to better use as the location for a new sustainable community of more than 30,000 residents, with 10% (800 plots) being made available to self builders.
The report foresees four low-density garden suburbs with “allotments, community gardens and orchards” of about 5,000 people each and two urban villages of about 10,000 in total. As well as homes, it would have shops and offices that would make it a “west London counterpoint to Canary Wharf” and an educational campus based at the current Terminal 5 building.
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