Background: Brithdir Mawr is small community just south of Newport in Pembrokeshire's National Park. The community is trying to find less destructive ways of living and seems to be doing a great job in the idyllic cottages and alternative buildings that make up the community. The house Five minutes walk from the community and hidden in the woods is an amazing experiment in low impact living. This is the house of Tony Wrench and his partner Jane Faith who built their home in 1997. The house is remarkable for a number of reasons. Firstly it is very well insulated with it's earth roof and uses local wood and solar energy for it's heating and lighting. Secondly the embodied energy to build it is extremely low because it is made mostly from locally sourced materials. There has been little transport energy used because of this and the timber is untreated too. Finally the cost of this beautiful low impact dwelling was incredibly low. Materials cost £2500 and it took some 400 man hours t o build. That's about 10 weeks work for one person. Tony who designed it himself is neither an architect nor a designer. The problem A year or so after it was built the local planning authority - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park - found out about it. Tony has applied for planning permission but Pembrokeshire National Park planning committee continually refuse and in 2001 said it had to be demolished by July 2002. Since then various legal battles have ensued which basically got no where and last weekend Tony had planned to demolish his home. Obviously people from all over the country (even the world) were pissed off about Park's planners decision and The Land is Ours decided to do something about it. Five days of action were planned and they turned out to be particularly effective too. to top