News and Events

Lammas in the news

To read the latest news article from The Western Mail (17 March 2008),

click here

To read an article from Planning Magazine (14th March 2008), click here

To read the latest news article from BBC Online News (11 March 2008), click here

This newspiece describes the projects planning application resubmission to Pembrokeshire County Council

To read the latest article from the Western Telegraph (11 March), click here

To read an article on policy 52 from The Land (spring 2008), click here

An excellent article from a groundbreaking magazine which looks at Pembrokeshire's new low-impact policy and the three applications which have been made under it to date (including Lammas)

    

To read an article from the Western Telegraph, (December 2007), click here

An article inviting people to apply for a plot which recently became available

To read an article from Green World Magazine, (November 2007), click here

An article from The Green Party magazine about the Lammas project

To read an article from the Tivy Side Advertiser, (October 16th 2007), click here

This piece is about Lammas' plans to resubmit their planning application

To read an article from the Western Telegraph, (October 9th 2007), click here

To read an article from The Tivy-Side Advertiser (October 9th), click here

To read an article from BBC Online news (October 9th), click here

These 3 news pieces are about the refusal for planning permission

Am cyfle i weld erthigl ar Lamas yn "y Papur Gwyrdd" (Chwefror '08), clicwch yma

(To view a welsh-language article on Lammas, click above)

To read an article in Self Build and Design (October 2007) click here

To read an article from the Guardian (July 26th), click here

To read an article from the Western Telegraph (June 1st), click here

Recent Events Archive

As part of te resubmission the terrace building is being redesigned. The new terrace will be heated using Biomass grown on the site.

                    Miscanthus

An estimated 16 tonnes of Elephant grass (Miscanthus) will be harvested annually to provide heating and hot water for the 4-unit terrace building.

Ecovillage Plans refused

The Lammas low-impact settlement application was presented to the Planning Committee of Pembrokeshire County Council today (October 9th) at County Hall in Haverfordwest. The application was refused.

The planning officer agreed that the project would make a social, environmental and economic contribution. He also considered that the project would blend into the landscape and have no adverse visual impact.

However it was made clear that the planners would like to see a more detailed travel/ traffic plan and further work done on the individual business plans for the 9 plots, before considering the application further.

Thus we intend to resubmitting a revised application that will address all the concerns and shortcomings raised by the planning officer.

Hub Model Complete, October 2007

The new model of the community hub is now complete.

The hub has been designed by Robin Campbell of Air Architecture and the model has been made by CIRIC

The Community Hub will be at the centre of the ecovillage and will be surrounded by the smallholdings. Inside the hub will be a part-time shop selling produce from the project. There will be a hall from which courses in topics such as permaculture, renewable energy, traditional welsh farming techniques will be run. The hub will also house the office, a kitchen for producing value-added produce, and a toilet/ shower block for the campsite.

A 50 minute documentary on Lammas and the ecovillage movement in the UK was issued as a free dvd with the autumn 2007 issue of Permaculture magazine (august). The film charts the stories of Paul Wimbush (Lammas) and Helen Iles (Undercurrents) in their quest to find an ecovillage to call home, and includes Findhorn (Scotland), the Village (Ireland), Tinkers Bubble (England) and the Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales) to name but a few.

The film has recently been re-edited and is now, along with a series of clips from the film, available online.

click here to watch clips from or buy "Ecovillage Pioneers",

a 50 minute film about Lammas and the ecovillage movement,

Delivering the Application

After 2 years of work, Lammas submitted its planning application to Pembrokeshire County Council on June 1st. The application is for a low impact settlement at Pont y gafel farm in North Pembrokeshire. "The application is exemplary, it is an achievement in itself " said Paul Wimbush, coordinator of the project.