Fwd: [Diggers350] Fwd: Please help to save this absolutely beautiful dwelling.

[Simon Fairlie]

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> From: "Ian" <ian.stardust at ukgateway.net>
> Date: 25 March 2013 21:24:26 GMT
> To: Simon Fairlie <chapter7 at tlio.org.uk>,  
> "thelandisours at yahoogroups.com" <TheLandIsOurs at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diggers350] Fwd: Please help to save this absolutely  
> beautiful dwelling.
> Reply-To: ian.stardust at ukgateway.net
>
> This is all over the internet, but I feel quite a lot of resistance  
> to it. This is certainly a well
> made building and it would be a pity to knock it down but why  
> simply because this is made
> from straw bales, should we support this any more than if it was  
> made with bricks and
> mortar. It doesn't look "low impact" to me. To me it reeks of  
> privilege. These are rich people
> trying to take advantage of the hard fought for inroads into the  
> planning system made by
> true low impactors like Tony Wrench. Many people I know would be  
> only too pleased of the
> chance of a "freezing damp caravan" securely sited and would use  
> low impact methods to
> make it warm and dry.
>
> Ian.
>
> On 25 Mar 2013 at 19:36, Simon Fairlie wrote:
>
>>     From: <hearth at hartwoodcommunity.coop>
>>     Date: 25 March 2013 11:38:33 GMT
>>     To: "SimonFairlie209" <chapter7 at tlio.org.uk>
>>     Subject: Please help to save this absolutely beautiful dwelling.
>>     Reply-To: <hearth at hartwoodcommunity.coop >
>>
>>     Hi SimonFairlie209,
>>     Another day, another young family is threatened with needless  
>> eviction and the destruction of
>>     their home and the savings they invested in it. But this one  
>> could be different...
>>     Charlies Home
>>     Literally right next door to the Lammas Ecovillage, Charlie &  
>> Megan's stunning strawbale home,
>>     built in a corner of the family farm, is easily the best  
>> example of it's kind I have ever seen. Please
>>     watch this short video to meet Charlie and see what they have  
>> created.
>>     http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=49451225
>>     Having grown up in the village and then like thousands of  
>> others, finding the only permitted way
>>     to stay in their area, even with a child, was to live in a  
>> freezing, damp caravan parked in the
>>     garden, they took the plunge and built this masterpiece with  
>> help from friends, neighbours,
>>     Lammas residents and volunteers.
>>     This is a young local family, trying to remain on their family  
>> farm, right next door to the most
>>     famous low-impact development in Britain, in what is hard to  
>> describe in words other than
>>     'stunning' and 'beautiful'. Even the officials sent to inspect  
>> the place were overawed, exclaiming
>>     "You could win an award with this!".
>>     There has probably never been a better opportunity to show up  
>> the planner's antisocial
>>     vandalism for what it is. Media friendly, young local family  
>> and glossy photo opportunities galore.
>>     A perfect way to show up the risible affordable housing  
>> policy, and unjustifiable refusal to apply
>>     new TAN6 planning laws in practice.
>>     Please support their appeal by spreading the word, links to  
>> the video and filling in the short
>>     appeal support form also available with guidance from the  
>> Natural Homes website here:
>>     http://naturalhomes.org/save-charlies-house.htm
>>     This has a deadline of 4 April 2013 - so please act NOW!
>>     Their victory would open the door to many others desperate to  
>> provide comfortable, truly
>>     affordable homes for their own families.
>>     Thank you for reading,
>>     Steve James.
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