Dame Judi: Eco-town is a bard idea.ACTRESS Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December 1934), usually known as Dame Judi Dench, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, three-time BAFTA, and six-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress. is playing a real-life dramatic role by fighting plans for an eco-town in the Midlands. Dame Judi fears proposals for the development close to Stratford-upon-Avon would ruin the home town of William Shakespeare. She has pledged her support to a campaign opposing a new town with 'green' credentials six miles down the road in Long Marston Long Marston could be:
Dame Judi, 73, who began her illustrious career at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a large national theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the British playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is located in his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the English Midlands. in Stratford in 1961, said: "Stratford is the jewel in the crown of the nation's heritage. "There can be few places in the world of such cultural significance as the town in which the world's greatest dramatist lived and worked. It is folly to put it at risk." Dame Judi, pictured, is backing the group BARD (Better Accessible and Responsible Development) which is opposing plans for a 20,000-resident carbon-neutral town in Long Marston. The proposed Long Marston eco town - in which all the energy would come from renewable sources and in which houses would be built from natural, recycled or reclaimed materials - is one of four such shortlisted sites in the Midlands. The others are at Curborough, Staffordshire; Pennbury, Leicestershire; and Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. |
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