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Lack of planning permission: Posse over children’s forest hut

The small "forest property" became the "playground" for an (expensive) comedy involving the authorities.(Bild: zVg)

Sad faces among many children in the Carinthian market town of Treffen: After months of bureaucratic farce, including proceedings and a fine, their beloved forest hut is now history.

"We wanted to offer our children and the children from the neighborhood an alternative close to nature and a retreat away from the daily school routine and the digital world," said family father Jochen H. in an interview with the "Krone" newspaper. And so the children got to work together and built a wooden play hut (under supervision and guidance) in the nearby woodland in Seespitz as early as All Saints' Day 2024.