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Lammas Low Impact Courses and Conferences
The pioneering sustainable self-build community takes its visitors back to the land in West Wales
Written by Amy Hughes
Illustration by Aurelia Lange
Wales – the land of soaring song, turf-churning scrums and cunning cross-dressing rioters – is today at the forefront of sustainable, ecological development. In 2009 the Welsh Assembly Government announced a national sustainable development scheme, One Wales: One Planet, which led last year to Technical Advice Note (TAN) 6: One Planet Development. The objective of the One Planet Development policy is truly laudable: for Wales to be using only its fair and sustainable share of the earth’s resources – which was measured in 2003 at 1.88 global hectares per person – within the space of a single generation. To this end, One Planet Developments must be zero carbon in both their construction and use, and within five years sit on land that provides for the inhabitants’ basic needs of income, food, energy and waste assimilation.… read more
