English Partnerships (EP) plans to expand its carbon challenge to ten sites within the next year, after 25 local authorities came forward with land for the initiative. Jayne Lomas, the project manager for the challenge, which aims to see a number of zero carbon schemes developed, said EP was now assessing each site. “We are looking at sites that can deliver by 2012,”she said. Lomas said EP would add two or three more sites to the two already identified – Hanham Hall in Bristol and Glebe Road near Peterborough – with local authorities providing an additional five or six. <br><br>Lomas added: “We are hoping to have a shortlist of around six to announce in early August [for the Hanham Hall site], with the successful developer announced by the autumn.”The Peterborough site will be put out to tender in October. “We are looking for developers to come forward with designs and ideas and we are testing the market in terms of land value. On the design for manufacture competition we are not taking a hit on the land because they [housebuilders] have become cost effective and the market has remained,”Lomas said. The government, housebuilders and other stakeholders are working towards signing …