Grand Designs

Getting planning permission to build in open countryside is nigh on impossible, but Helen and Chris Seymour Smith have achieved exactly that. Both architects, they decided to move out of London and build their own home in the middle of the Cotswolds countryside. They managed it through a little-used planning law called PP7. This allows houses of exemplary architectural merit to be built on Green Belt land.

Category

Documentary / Home improvement / House/garden / DIY

Original air date

2010-09-22