‘Hobbit house’ family succeeds in quest to save home from bulldozers
I have featured the Hobbit House in an earlier version of Hinterland. I am pleased to see it has been saved from demolition. This link also enables you to take a tour. The nonconformist in me thinks we should do much more to encourage local youngster to innovate like this as a means of staying where they grew up. Hinterland readers will have all shades of opinion on this issue!
The story tells us:
A young family has won its epic battle to live in a real-life “hobbit house” after defeating an attempt by planners to bulldoze it.
Charlie Hague and Megan Williams, both 27, used natural materials to build their unique home in a secret location blending in with the rolling countryside of Pembrokeshire in west Wales.
The couple did not have planning permission and applied for approval only after moving in with their newborn son Eli three years ago. They were ordered to flatten it.
Their battle to save their £12,000 eco-home from demolition – supported by thousands of people from around the world – ended in victory when they won a final planning inspector appeal.
Williams said: “We are delighted. We are very happy and very excited we can carry on doing what we want to achieve living on the land. It is a basic need and primal urge to build a house and shelter but there was no way we could have afforded houses in the area.
This was why we decided to build our own home and we were fortunate enough to have land to do that.