Come on Edward and Jenny : you know why they are just in England.This government is kept in power by its Scots and Welsh MPs.Or am I just being cynical ?

Keith Vaughan, Great Stretton, Leicestershire

If you NIMBYs don't want eco-towns as a sustainable way to provide the new housing we so badly need for our growing population, an acceptable alternative might be to send the objectors to live Poland and other eastern European countries so they can fill the vacuum created by migrant workers coming here.
If you don't want your roads congested, as you assert, sell your cars. We have become a nation of selfish bigots.

Simon G, Derby,

Brown and the 'New' Labour government have lost the plot!
Do we really have to wait until 2010 to get rid of them?
This is yet another overpaid consultant led idea of Labour
By the way, why are they just in England?

Edward, Newbury, UK

Which grinning consultants came up with this genius plan?Another Green gimmick from the featherweights runnings this country and us into the ground. Long Marston is surrounded by narrow country lanes and is about ten minutes from a B road. No rail links. Token bus service. Half an hour to a motorway. People are stranded without a car in this part of Warwickshire and Stratford is already an all day traffic jam. What a joke.

Stan, shipston-on-stour,

Enough is enough. Wildlife already has to compete unfairly with increased urbanisation. What will be left for our grandchildren? Has the govt considered any sites in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland? Why only England?

Jenny, caterham, surrey

If as you reported in Public Agenda on the 1st April, no more than half of all households of an Eco Town will be allowed to own a car can we assume that the houses for such households will have neither garages or garage space? Who is going to police these households to ensure that no one within such household has an 'illegally' owned vehicle? To ensure that all the needs of residents are catered for it would be necessary that the first things to be built would be shops, schools, medical facilities, work facilities and entertainment and all be operational as the residents start to move in. The Eco Town theory might sound nice but will it work out in practice?

Gort Measey, Countesthorpe, Leicestershire.

Elsenham in Essex? Great! That should be the straw that breaks the back of the railway that already struggles to cope with commuter traffic to London and the Stansted Express route (even before any expansion) on just one line each way. Of course, there's always the M11, but that's already choc-a-bloc (and only 2 lanes for much of its length).

Paul, Bishops Stortford,

I am staggered that Pennbury in Leicestershire is on the shortlist.How can this site, which contains most beautiful farmland and is English countryside at its best ,be considered a brownfield site just because of a small airstrip in the middle of it? What dishonesty - it is quite disgraceful.
The impact it will have on Leicester services e.g.hospitals and traffic is horrendous.Virtually touching Leicester it will just be an additional suburb.
What unprincipled times we live in!

Marion Symonds, Birmingham, West Midlands

I think that everyone, including Tony Henman should pipe down and wait to see the full plans before pressing their opinions on the nation. Who cares if Tim Henman grew up in Weston - hes not exactly the national treasure like his father seems to think he is.

Rosemarie, Weston-on-the-Green,

The proposed eco town development outside Stratford Upon Avon is totally proposterous. I ask Gordon Brown himslef to visit Stratford during the summer months when he will see the town already overwhelmed by traffic both from tourists and residents alike. The town is already swamped by the number of new houses that have aeady been built in the last few years and most aspects of the infrastruture simply can't cope.

With the devlopment of an eco town, traffic congestion will only get worse as transport links are simply not ready to serve such a development. Furthermore, where will all of these people work? Plus,. there is already a shortage of school places in Stratford and surrounding areas - surely this is only going to further exacerbate this problem.

I am at the end of my tether as the government continues to ruin heritage and green Brtiain.

Current Resident of Stratford on Avon

James Thomas, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire