A couple built a timber chalet without permission in a national park and lived there for 27 years before planning officials found out.
Graham and Margaret Lavis settled on a patch of land given to them by relatives in 1998 and hoped to live out their lives there.
Their timber chalet arrived by lorry and they bolted it together themselves at the end of a gravel lane in the village of Simpsons Cross, which is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
The couple knew they didn't have the necessary planning but flew under the radar until a planning officer from the Pembrokeshire National Park Authority knocked on their door.
He explained their records show that the single-storey chalet, called Windermere, has never been given planning permission.






