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["mark sundlin" <marko467@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Graham Burnett"

>Reply-To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

>To: , , , , "sharon girardi" , , "PermacultureUK" , , "Permaculture Magazine" ,

>Subject: [permaculture] Fw: Steward Community Woodland gains planning permission!!

>Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 00:43:26 +0100

>

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>----- Original Message -----

>From: "Affinity"

>To:

>Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:46 PM

>Subject: Steward Community Woodland gains planning permission!!

>

>

> > Great news - the Planning Inspectorate have given us 5 year temporary

>permission.

> > The press release follows, the full decision text can be seen on our

>website - www.stewardwood.org

> > Thankyou to everyone who has helped us, in letter writing and other ways,

>especially to Simon Fairlie and Chapter 7.

> >

> > Come and celebrate at our campfire music night next week (Tuesday 20th,

>7pm onwards, bring instruments and voices and cabaret acts!). Some food and

>drink is provided, for donations, bring more if you like (vegan please). See

>you there? If you need to stay, please check first as we now have lots of

>planning conditions...

> >

> > ------------------------------------------------------------

> >

> > NEWS RELEASE

> >

> > 14-08-2002

> >

> > Sustainable Woodland Community gains planning permission

> >

> > Today the inhabitants of Steward Community Woodland received a 5 year

>temporary planning permission to continue their sustainable woodland living

>project.

> > This decision comes as the culmination of two years of planning

>applications and appeals to the Dartmoor National Park Authority and the

>Planning Inspectorate.

> > The permission means that the 7 benders and assorted communal structures

>(bikeshed, longhouse, kitchen, workshop) are now safe, and that the

>community now have a five year period to further develop the project and

>achieve their aims.

> > The permission has been granted subject to various conditions to safeguard

>the low impact nature of the project, and the Dartmoor National Park

>Authority will have the chance to annually assess the group's progress.

> >

> > Pete Cow, a member of the community, comments:

> > "We are overjoyed by this far sighted decision, which shows that the

>Planning Inspectorate recognises the importance of our project, and fully

>supports what we are doing here.

> > We knew it would be a struggle to get planning permission under the

>present planning system as it makes no systematic allowances for low impact

>developments of this kind. We are delighted to finally get a positive

>result after all our hard work.

> > It is heartening to see the Inspectorate referring to the Rio Declaration,

>Agenda 21 and the Government's commitments to supporting sustainable

>practice.

> > The planning conditions attached to this permission will ensure that this

>project remains sustainable and continues to have a positive impact on the

>local ecology and the surrounding community."

> >

> > Notes to editors:

> >

> > 1. For interviews phone 01647 440233 or 07980 155194

> >

> > 2. For the full text of the decision visit our website at

>www.stewardwood.org

> >

> > 3. The attached planning conditions are summerised as follows:

> >

> > >The permission lapses at the end of five years.

> > >No petrol or diesel generators to be used on site.

> > >No more than three resident's vehicles on site.

> > >No more than ten visitor's vehicles on site.

> > >No new caravan, mobile home, vehicle, building, structure or tent to be

>brought onto the site, positioned or erected without the written approval of

>the DNPA.

> > >The present structures cannot be moved without the written permission of

>the DNPA.

> > >A written report to be submitted to the DNPA on the 1st April every year

>detailing the activities carried out in compliance with the Business Plan,

>the Management and Biodiersity Action Plan, and criteria for sustainable

>development.

> >

> > 4. Project background -

> > Steward Community Woodland was set up in April 2000 as a permaculture

>based sustainable living project, integrating conservation woodland

>management, organic growing and low impact living. We aim to encourage and

>enable environmental awareness and solutions by providing examples of

>sustainable land use and appropriate technologies.

> > We live in canvas and wood structures on the side of the Wray valley one

>mile south of Moretonhampstead. Steward Wood is a 32 acre plantation

>consisting mostly of Japanese Larch, Scots' Pine and Ash. There are

>presently six of us living here, with a 5 month old baby. For more

>information see our website.

> >

> >

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> > Affinity

> >

> >

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