I saw this on Allotment Lady's blog. Someone who lives in her village built this tree house out of recycled materials, on his parents land and far away from any other houses. It's not a residence, it's just a project for some students who wanted to "opt out of the drink and drugs culture" and do something worthwhile instead. But now he and his friends are fighting to prevent it being pulled down under planning laws.
Visit the Treehouse website for more information about the project and more videos. If you want to support their fight, please sign the petition.
2 comments:
This has to be a joke, surely? Since when did a group of kids need planning permission to build a treehouse in what amounts to their own back garden?
As for health and safety, whose is at risk? The lads who built it clearly don't have a problem with it, and in any case who are they going to sue if it all falls down in the middle of the night - themselves?
Anyone else who gets hurt by its collapse will either be there of his own free will or trespassing - and there are laws against that already.
Unbelievable.
That's very sad, not to mention ridiculous...thanks for publicising it on here. Sometimes I feel like the whole UK is drowning under the weight of suffocating bureacracy and endless, endless, paperwork :(
I really hope they are successful in getting the treehouse left alone!
How depressing that taxpayer's money is being wasted on pursuing this pointless, petty case.
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