Green Options » local authorities http://greenoptions.com/tag/local-authorities Posts tagged 'local authorities' Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:44:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The UK’s First Eco Community Obtains Building Approval From Local Authorities http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/28/the-uks-first-eco-community-obtains-building-approval-from-local-authorities/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/28/the-uks-first-eco-community-obtains-building-approval-from-local-authorities/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:44:29 +0000 Angelique van Engelen http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/28/the-uks-first-eco-community-obtains-building-approval-from-local-authorities/ lammas.jpgThe UK’s first eco community has been granted permission to start building a mini eco village. The community will consist of nine families who are going to build their houses from straw bale, mud and timber in the Welsh village of Glandwr.

The community is called the Lammas and the members will build four detached dwellings and a row of five attached houses on a plot of 76 acres. They’re going to live off-grid and collect their water from a spring that’s existing on site as well as from rain water captured on the turf-made roofs of their houses.

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