Speaking in a House of Commons debate initiated by Anne McIntosh MP on
eco-towns yesterday (Tuesday 3rd June), Michael Fabricant said, among
other things, (taken from Hansard):-

"She has mentioned that the Government should make a commitment that
there will be consultation and agreement with local authorities. Is she
surprised to learn that the proposed eco-town on the Curborough site in
Fradley-which incidentally will not be eco in any event because by the
time it is ready all buildings will have to be ecologically sound-has no
support, either from the West Midlands regional assembly or from
Lichfield district council? Moreover, it will cause a huge strain on the
local infrastructure and will be ecologically unsound. It will not even
be an eco-town.

"If a town is to be ecologically sound, it must take everything into
account, including, as my hon. Friend has pointed out in her excellent
speech, distance to work, transport facilities, whether there are
adequate roads, whether there is rail and whether there is all the other
infrastructure required. Even if a town were ecologically sound, it
might be made unsound as a whole by virtue of the fact that people had
to move to and from that town. Have all those factors been taken into
account? They certainly have not been at Curborough."