One Planet Council
by Chris Colley, 19 September, 2014, 0 comments
One Planet Development is a still-young planning policy that provides for granting of planning permission for low impact rural development in Wales. Its aim is to permit development on rural land where it might not otherwise fit with planning guidelines, provided a set of criteria are met about sustainability, impact, the income generated, the level of food requirements met locally, and the level of self-sufficiency of the households involved.
So far few applications have been successfully carried through to approval, (Nant-y-Cwm was the first) but there are a number in the process.
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