Introducing The Land

The Land Interim Newsletter is now available on line at:
http://www.tlio.org.uk/chapter7/newsletterjuly07.pdf
featuring articles on the Planning White Paper and the Housebuilding
Industry.

The Land will be written by and for people who believe that the roots of justice, freedom, social security and democracy lie not so much in access to money, or to the ballot box, as in access to land and its resources. TLIO will continue its original three main land access aims: homes for all, the right to roam and the right to enjoy the resources of the land.

The Land will combine the role of three previous publications:

The Land Is Ours Newsletter, which since 1995 has kept people informed about land campaigns, in the UK and abroad.

Chapter 7 News: news and views about the UK planning system.

The former TLIO publication Land Essays; reflective articles on the nature of land ownership.

The Land will cover UK & International land campaigns - peasant resistance, land reform in the UK and abroad, housing and road development, low impact land use, smallholding and farming, common land and global commons, land-use planning, squatting, urban property issues, land tax & law, allotments, right to roam, corporate ownership, spiritual approaches to land and environmental stewardship. It will be edited by a part-time collective, including the former editors of TLIO Newsletter and Chapter 7 News, and it will take over the subscription lists of these two publications.
We will encourage writers and campaigners to use this space to challenge the assumptions about land ownership worldwide. The journal will be a forum for ideas and a focus for future campaigns & action. Please send contributions to Chapter7. Email or floppy disc preferred.

The first issue will appear in the second half of 2005. We will start by producing 2 issues a year, but aim to bring it up to 3 or 4 per year.
For more information about The Land, contact the Chapter 7 Office. TLIO meets roughly twice a year and can pay travelling expenses for campaigners to attend.



Report of TLIO's action to prevent the demolition of Tony Wrench's Roundhouse in Pembrokeshire National Park, during the Easter Weekend 8 -13 April, 2004

**Update**

On July 18th 2007, Pembrokeshire National Park Planning Committee met where Tony and Jane were allowed to speak for three minutes (the first time they have been allowed to address them since this saga began in 1999). Despite several members speaking in their favour - one being concerned that, after all this negotiation, refusal could be based on the advice of just one officer, the committee voted for refusal by 7 votes to
4. Tony and Jane will be appealing.

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