Despite angry neighbours calling her eco home a ‘garish Hobbit house’, a delighted grandmother has finally been granted permission to build her state-of-the-art ‘Field House’.
A gran has won her fight to build a £400,000 eco-style farmhouse following a bitter two-year planning row with neighbours.She claimed the state-of-the-art ‘Field House’ in the idyllic village of Whitwell, Lincolnshire would be one of the most energy-efficient properties in the UK.
But June, who is a county councillor, appealed and took the case to the Planning Inspectorate which has now given the build the go ahead. The farmer submitted plans for the eco-farmhoue after she and her husband decided they wanted to downsize from their current five-bedroom property in Whitwell. One neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘It is not befitting of the village to have a Telletubby-style Hobbit home becoming an eyesore on the landscape.’Jane described ‘Field House’ as ’21st Century farmhouse’
The farmer, who has battled breast cancer and had two heart operations, said: ‘I don’t know why you’d object to something you can hardly see.‘The house puts back into the environment more than it takes out.
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