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That roundhouse finally gets planning permission
Posted: 17/09/2008
The now renowned turf roofed roundhouse built at Brithdir Mawr, near Newport, Pembrokeshire by Tony Wrench and Jane Faith has at last received retrospective planning permission. A ten year long planning battle has been resolved, after Pembrokeshire National Park Authority approved planning permission for the roundhouse and a number of new buildings under its new sustainability policy.
The environmentally friendly roundhouse was built using locally sourced plantation thinnings, straw bales, clay and recycled glass. It is finished with a clay and manure render under a turf and strawberry roof.
The buildings are fully sustainable as well as biodegradeable with power generated on site using solar panels and a turbine in a stream running nearby, which also supplies the residents with their water supply. Compost toilets and reed bed drainage systems are also installed.
Residents make a living as musicians, from working the land and through craft industries such as wood carving.
The part retrospective, part proposed application allows for eight roundhouses along with toilets, agricultural buildings and workshops. Permission has been granted for six permanent residents, five visitors, 10 campers and day visitors.
The roundhouse, situated in a remote part of the Brithdir Mawr settlement, a derelict farm which had been converted with planning permission, was discovered by chance in 1997, when it was spotted from a helicopter.
The National Park Authority will review its decision in three years.
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