Hobbit House !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27991781

I hope this home does get retrospective planning permission...isn't it cute !

[RATTER15]

I hope they do as well. The problem being that if they win, these types of homes will be popping up everywhere, I would love to see that as well but there are many that wouldn't.

They should not of built it in open countryside, if it was tucked a way in a quiet corner they may have won the day, but not in open countryside.

[Baldric]

It's a substantial building, put up in a Rural Location without any regard to the Planning Regulations.
To allow it to remain would be the 'Thin End of the Wedge' for the destruction of our Countryside.

[mikey4444]

Ratter...If you know the area, its about as far away from everywhere as you can get, as well as being built in someones garden. The work that this chap
has gone to is remarkable. I really hope he is successful, even though he should have gone through the usual channels. I would live to spend the night there !

[Tilly2]

It's beautiful and it's in a garden.

[naomi24]

Really quirky. It would make a lovely play house for children, but I wouldn't want to live in it. I hope they get the permission they need. It would be a shame to demolish it.

[jackthehat]

It is the danger of 'precedent' that is set when approving this sort of construction.......

Impressive as the workmanship may be, they should have applied for Planning Permission before setting about the work.

[RATTER15]

Mikey, I dont really know the area but it is in open countryside according to the report.

I hope they can keep it, I would love it myself, I bet it would be a pain to keep clean though!

[RATTER15]

It doesnt help their case that they have already ridden rough shod all over the planning department by building it without permission in the first place.

[mikey4444]

Think of all the spiders !

Retrospective planning permission is given all the time, so if this charming house gets it, then I can't see much of a precedent being set. It hardly a blot on the landscape is it, unlike some monstrosities that do get permission.

[jackthehat]

That's the trouble......once you make an exception it gets harder to refuse permission for other developments.....

[Tilly2]

Ratter, it says it's built in a garden.

'Megan Williams and her partner Charlie Hague built it in the garden of her parents' home in Glandwr near Crymych.'

[RATTER15]

Tilly, //But Pembrokeshire council began enforcement proceedings earlier this year, after ruling it was an unauthorised dwelling built in open countryside.//

Allowing houses to be built in gardens will also be a contentious issue, so one it has permission to stay the the house will get its own garden and most likely separated from the original garden.

Like I said, i would also like to see it stay but I can just see it opening a very large can of worms.

[Baldric]

Tilly, go to related questions, check the Link given by B00

///Last night a spokesman for Pembrokeshire County Council said: ‘An enforcement notice has been served on this property as it is alleged that an unauthorised dwelling has been built in open countryside without planning permission.
‘It is currently the subject of an enforcement appeal.///

[mikey4444]

Or spiders ratter !

[mikey4444]

Well, its either in open countryside, or in a garden...it can't really be both can it ?

[jackthehat]

Wherever it was built open-countryside/back garden in an 'area' of open-countryside, it still needed Planning Approval *before* construction was started.

[RATTER15]

Spiders!! I hate spiders!! you would that after being a pest controller for 13 years I would have got used to spiders, I never did. Rats, I love them but don't let a spider near me!!

[Mosaic]

The spiders would do what they are meant for- eat flies.
I love it and wish them success. Not enough self-build is done in the UK. I'd far rather have something like this than a barratt's box.

[Baldric]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-21942172

///A hobbit-style eco-home is threatened with demolition after it was built in open countryside without planning permission.///

[Baldric]

///a barratt's box///
aren't they the ones that usually have Planning Permission?