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New town could create 8,000 jobs
New town could create 8,000 jobs
2 September 2009
Plans for an "eco-friendly" new town based on co-operative principles in South Lanarkshire have been unveiled.
Owenstown, located 5 miles from Lanark, at Rigside, would be home to 20,000 people and could create 8,000 jobs.
It is being run by the Hometown Foundation and is inspired by social reformer Robert Owen, who pioneered innovative conditions in New Lanark.
The Hometown Foundation, a charitable trust established to help build new self-sustainable communities and regenerate rundown areas, has already secured the 2,000-acre site south of Lanark.
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