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You can help a low-impact, off-grid community obtain permanent planning permission

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This is an opportunity to represent and to support our friends at the Steward Community Woodland in their application for permanent planning permission. After 15 years of successful experimentation in sustainable living, they are now applying for permanent planning permission

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Three-bedroom, earth-sheltered house with a living roof, cob internal walls & sea view; cost: £18,000

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Seven years ago, a handsome builder came on a Lowimpact.org ‘how to make biodiesel’ course at Redfield and stole one of our staff. They now live with three children in Cornwall, in an earth-sheltered house that he built himself on his own land.

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We have a huge housing problem, and yet they want to destroy Charlie’s home; you can help

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This blog is about the house that Charlie and Meg built. It’s a straw-bale roundhouse with a reciprocal roof, built in the countryside where they grew up. The exterior can be seen above, the interior below, with Charlie, Meg and sprog in the middle.

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