There was a story on the local news last night, something about a small rural village and these people ,eco freaks, who bought some land there cheap. Have started to live there, they had build large home structures out of anything they can get their hands on. They have no permission to live there and no planing permission for the 'dwellings', and to top it off, they had applied for permission to build full structures and homes there in this 'area of natural beauty'. When the council refused them permission on numerious grounds they argued and are appealing.
The locals said that the village is too small to cope with increased demand on it's infastruction, and said they do not need to live there they can grow the crops and reside else where, which I agree with. But I just though how many bulidings, how big, how many people, you know they would say "oh only a couple of residents to tend the crops would live there" ......and weeks later it would be like ******* Glastonbury!
But its the fact that they are jumping on the back of all this 'eco stuff' and using that as a reason for being there, lets face it they want cheap housing in a very expensive area of natural beauty, and then in the furture sell the lot and become millionaires, they care less about the environment than China!