MILLENNIUM COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME

The 'Millennium Communities Programme' (or 'Millennium Villages initiative'), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.
This is to be achieved by promoting innovative building technologies, increased economic and social self-sufficiency, high urban design standards, and sustainable development principles.

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The villages
Environmental objectives
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In the media

The villages


A competition for the development of the first of the 'Millennium Villages', Greenwich Millennium Village, was launched in 1997. It is expected that 6,000 new homes will have been completed within the programme by 2010, although construction will continue beyond this.
The full list of Millennium Communities is:

Greenwich Millennium Village, London

Allerton Bywater Millennium Community, near Leeds

New Islington Millennium Community, Manchester

South Lynn Millennium Community, King’s Lynn

Telford Millennium Community, Telford

Oakgrove Millennium Community, Milton Keynes

Hastings Millennium Community, Hastings

Environmental objectives


Among the environmental aims are cutting energy used during constructing 50%, energy consumption by 20%, water consumed by 20%, and waste disposal by 50%.
Some of the villages plan to go beyond this - for example Greenwich plans to cut primary energy used by 80% [1] using low-energy building techniques and renewable energy technologies.

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Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

BedZED, London

See also



Code for Sustainable Homes

Energy efficiency in British housing

Environmental design

Sustainable architecture

Sustainable Communities Plan

External links



English Partnerships official Millennium Communities Programme page

Millennium villages and sustainable communities (independent assessment)
In the media


★ Jan 2007, ''New Builder'': First Millenium Community homes sold in South Lynn

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