by Tom Walsh
A row over planning permission has prompted one caravan owner to use his tourer in an unlikely form of protest.
Magnus Moore, a wheelchair user from Llanon in Wales, pitched his caravan in the car park of the local council offices in Penmorfa, Aberaeron on Monday, blocking parking spaces in protest at plans which he said were intended to throw him out of his home.
According to the Cambrian News, Mr Moore says he has transformed his shed into a specialised live/work unit so he can build rough-terrain wheelchairs at home.
However, his application for planning permission to change the use of the building was refused, and now he believes the council wants to see him homeless.
“I live off the grid, out of the way. I haven’t got planning permission and I’ve applied for it, but they are refusing to give it,” he told the news provider.
“I live in an agricultural building that I’ve sympathetically turned into a live/work unit. I’ve got solar power and a wind turbine, but no mains electricity.”
