https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/tags/ecohome/Recent content in ecohome on Birmingham DailyHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 13 Apr 2026 04:53:00 +0000https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/couple-forced-to-live-in-garden-shed-for-years-after-river-pollution-blocks-370k-eco-home-build/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:53:00 +0000https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/couple-forced-to-live-in-garden-shed-for-years-after-river-pollution-blocks-370k-eco-home-build/Jane Coyle, 64, and her husband Anthony, 67, have been living in their garden shed for the past four years, unable to build their £370,000 dream eco-home in Edwyn Ralph, Herefordshire. Their plans, submitted in 2020 to construct a sustainable three-bedroom house on woodland land they purchased for £120,000, were stalled due to the ‘Lugg Moratorium’—a building freeze imposed because of dangerously high phosphate levels in the nearby River Lugg.