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
Read more about this topic: Millennium Communities Programme
Famous quotes containing the word villages:
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“Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today—in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped—always somebody else’s horizons! O bliss! O poop- poop! O my! O my!”
—Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)