Hobbit Home Saved From Demolition !

[mikey4444]

Some will remember this from a previous thread, sometime last year :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-33528461

Sensible outcome...well done to the Council concerned, for putting common sense before rules.

[Baldric]

Crazy outcome, doesn't matter how 'cute' it is it just sets a precedent for anyone to build what they like, where they like!

[Gromit]

Wow! That interior is amazing.

Good to see the local planning Gestapo get a bloody nose.

[Gromit]

// Crymych councillor Keith Lewis prompted applause from the public at the meeting on Tuesday when he said there were no local objections to the house and the couple were "ahead of the game in many ways".

But planning officer David Popplewell said the property fell short of the guidance in the Welsh government's One Planet Development (OPD) policy.

[mikey4444]

I agree Gromit ! It looks like a set from any of the LOTR films !

[Old_Geezer]

I can see both sides of this. It would be a shame to destroy it but it can't be allowed to set a precedent. Many other buildings have been destroyed to create a disincentive to build without permission. That is also common sense. I have to trust the decision was made after due consideration.

[mikey4444]

OG...if my memory serves me correctly, this case has been going on for a few years now, so I guess all due deliberation has been completed. I appreciate what every is saying over the issue of planning permission, but I think a sensible outcome has been reached here. After all, there were no local objections apparently, and its hardly an eyesore is it ?

[ummmm]

The fact it isn't an eyesore would have helped their cause. Unlike that castle hidden behind bales of hay...

[mikey4444]

Umm...that place was just dreadful ! I would have manned the bulldozer myself !

[ummmm]

And the people were quite dreadful too.

[Gromit]

The Welsh Government produce a Guide for Planning Applications. Their Primary concern is the ecologic impact of a development.

http://gov.wales/docs/desh/publications/121115calculatoren.pdf

I would have thought its ecological impact would be very small compared to most buildings, because it was build from materials already there, tree, stone etc. the fact that permission has mow been respectively granted probably indicates that the Planning Officer who refused it did so not on the buildings merit, but because he hadn't been consulted.

[mikey4444]

As far as I know, this house is built in someones back garden. It had no local objectors and isn't harming anyone.

[Baldric]

So, following on from that Mikey, is it ok for anyone to develop their garden without Planning Permission?

[Retrochic]

Why they should be above the law beats me. So what its an allegedly 'eco' house? Its still a dwelling built without permission. There are plenty of farmers around here desperate to have their children live on the Farm but cannot get permission to build either a single dwelling or convert a barn, I can think of three off hand that have spend thousands trying to prove the need for a worker on site and no one in the local area would object. FWIW I think its a total eyesore and as it passing building regs like all other new dwellings have to -well I don't think so somehow. Someone has got a nice fat brown envelope I think.