Change land laws to allow proper eco-villages

[contadina]

Some friends have setup a charity in the UK which campaigns for changes in the use of land laws to allow eco-villages to be setup and run much easier. We're not talking about Barratt Homes or Peter Mandleson's idea of eco-villages here. These are proper eco-villages, like the Lammas Project that are self-built, zero carbon community smallholdings where people can be self-sufficient.

More details are available on their website http://growup.org.uk/. Please 'sign' their petition at...
http://www.petitiononline.com/l0a9h0e3/petition.html

[Green Aura]

I saw this on Facebook a couple of days ago and bookmarked it to have a good look at later. I'll sign the petition too.

However, with the new regime I can't see it having much success I'm afraid

[contadina]

It took the Lammas project http://www.lammas.org.uk/ three years to get planning permission under Pembrokeshire County Council's adopted low-impact policy, so it can be done :)

[grahamhobbs]

This is good but we need a wider campaign, the left has always campaigned for the right to work, we need a right to live, the right to live a self-sufficient life. In Britain there is sufficient agricultural land for each family to have 3 acres, we should have the right to live on the land if we are using the land productively or self-sufficiently. Why can some people have acres beside their house to keep their riding horses on, but others can't grow their own food?