... sprawl, in this case towards nearby Bristol and surrounding towns. To the east, much of the countryside falls in the Cotswolds area of outstanding natural beauty, limiting development to village infill. As a consequence, Bath has a real shortage of affordable housing, even lower than the nationally low figure for the south west of 16% of the total housing stock. Bath also needs to safeguard land for industrial development, as it is over reliant on the fickle tourist sector. A housing programme which has which has pioneering innovations for sustainable and a efficient living is the Greenwich Millennium Village, which has combated the problem that Bath is facing by constructing a housing development on the Eastern side of the Greenwich Peninsula adjacent to the River Thames. It has 1377 homes of which 20% will be affordable housing units, as well as approx. 5000 square meters of commercial space. The project ...

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