Day 7

Today's update is that the planner is on holiday for two weeks.

The meeting this week is for the Ecovillage to inform the council that the sewage treatment is working and to apologise. The system has to have at least 40 houses connected. Up until last October the ecovillage did not have 40 houses built.

We and our architect will meet to talk about our plan as soon as the planner returns. We hope that planning will be granted with the condition that our sewerage connection won't be made until the water authorities are satisfied that the ecovillage sewage system works.

On another matter, there are steep rises in the district heating standing charges to cover standing charges on unsold sites. The ecovillage does not yet have a sustainable operational budget to provide and maintain services.

I love walking round the woodlots and farm - in the morning, after lunch and after dinner. The rolling fields, old beeches and clouds of hawthorn are restorative.

We talked last night of alternatives. There is comfort in making plan B, and C, and ...