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…..Tony Wrench and friends—in their quest to live sustainably—built and moved in to some low-impact dwellings based on traditional Celtic roundhouses. Believing (probably correctly) that they would not get planning permission, they didn’t ask for it. Given that the land they built on, while being privately owned, was protected from development as part of a national park, they were certainly taking their chances. But Wrench’s roundhouse blended so seamlessly into the landscape, it took the authorities ten years to even notice their existence when a plane flying overhead caught a glimpse of light reflecting off a plexi-glass window. The park authorities then entered into a ten year struggle to evict the community, before finally giving up and accepting this as a model form of low impact development.

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