That Roundhouse
the roundhouse at night, March  2012

Hello. Welcome to That Roundhouse. This is an ecohome of wood frame, cobwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof; with solar power and wind turbine for electricity, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water. We designed and built it over the winter 1997/8,

Please browse around this site.
Plenty of pictures, history and updates.


The house was turned down for planning permission several times. After several court appearances, we decided to demolish it over Easter 2004, but changed our minds after demonstrations of huge public support in its defence. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority attempted to get a court injunction to force us to demolish it, but were persuaded to allow it to stay up until July 2006, when we could re-apply under their new Low Impact Policy. Our new application was considered for six months as we negotiated over all the points of the policy that we had to satisfy. After a refusal in 2007 and several deferrals while Faith (was Jane) worked on a joint application with Emma who lives in a roundhouse across the fields, in Sept 2008 the committee voted to give us and her planning permission, conditional for three years. So here we are. A low impact roundhouse.
How to:

- Straw Bale Huts
- Roundhouse Building Courses
- How to Build a Reciprocal Frame Roof
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Roundhouse book for sale

 the den, January 2009

New
- Most recent news, events, videos and
updates - 2006 - 2012
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Videos of building roundhouses
and other stuff in our daily life

History

The planning Story up to July 2002
Story Part 2 - July-Dec 2002,
Story Part 3 - 2003
Story Part 4 - 2004,
Story Part 5 - 2005

- Those Roundhouses in Northern Spain - Matavenero
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Prana CD's and songbooks for sale
- Van Man Stan Speaks on Current Affairs


the Roundhouse, Easter, 2009

the den, Feb 09