One of the Welsh Government’s landmark planning policies - known as One Planet Development - is at a crossroads. Pioneered by former Environment Minister Jane Davidson, OPD encourages individuals and families to build homes and live their lives in a way that reduces their carbon emissions massively.
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority is currently carrying out a five-year review of an OPD project near Newport, Pembs, to see whether it has met the policy’s requirements.
The project, devised by Matthew and Charis Watkinson, two former vets from Essex who have moved to the area, where they live with their two young children, has received a great deal of publicity in newspapers, magazines and on TV.
