66-Year-Old UK Woman Told to Tear Down Self-Built House

This just came in from Anon:

Woman, 66, is ordered to demolish her £59k log cabin eco-home where she has lived for seven years after council ruled it was too big and breached planning permission.

The mother-of-three spent £59,000 of her life savings constructing the cabin from natural materials and applied for planning permission at the time in order to do so.

She was told she did not require permission as there was already a mobile home on the site in the quaint hamlet.

‘I was given this formal legal document dated January 23, 2014 that said ‘application not required’. ‘I built it exactly the same as it looks in the plans I submitted in 2013. It is absolutely identical.’

“But Herefordshire County Council has since performed a U-turn and told her the wooden structure is unauthorized and in breach of planning regulations.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9504475/Woman-66-ordered-demolish-59k-log-cabin-eco-home-lived-seven-years.html

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About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

3 Responses to 66-Year-Old UK Woman Told to Tear Down Self-Built House

  1. Sad state of affairs. Wanna bet someone, either an official, or “some important/wealthy person” wants the land?

    maybe the locals will wish they had supported this woman, when an abattoir is put up/high dense multi family housing put in/pig farm established/or large facility erected to house border jumpers/illegal migrants….Fact, now that I think about it, maybe this woman/her supporters need to get word out that some/all of those are in the works/reason why she is being so treated. Might be a new/different resource for her.

  2. This article was published in the daily mail. The only aperture is notoriously right wing and often prints sensationalist stories with little basis in fact, much like our own Fox News.

    I have no idea where the truth lies here. Just saying, take it with a grain of salt, Lloyd

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