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Did You Know?
Nice and Nasty
the Goodwin Sands lie off Deal and the strong winds and powerful currents ensure the sands are always shifting. Almost two thousand ships have met their deaths there. On the bright side, in summer at low tide there is an annual cricket match played on them.
New Growth Points
The New Growth Points initiative articulates a partnership between central government and local partners with the aim of increasing the housing supply in a sustainable way, in line with existing regional spatial strategies.
What's happened so far:
- As a result of the Barker Review of Housing Supply, the New Growth Points initiative announced in Dec 2005
- The Government invited local authorities to submit sustainable growth proposals which would be assessed by certain criteria
- 29 places supported as New Growth Points accepted, to share 40 million in funding for 2007/08
- The terms of the partnership between central government and local partners is set out in a Written Ministerial Statement made to Parliament by Yvette Cooper on 24 October 2006.
Click here for information on New Growth Points in the South East