Ten villas in Marka received permission on the wrong basis, but have nevertheless been approved. The Nature Conservation Association believes the state has made a big mistake.

For two years, ten villas have been the subject of an inflamed Marka battle. The Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation will fight to ensure that similar houses are never built again.

Marka dream or bureaucratic nightmare? A new residential yard in Sørkedalen has in recent months gone from one to the other – and back again.

Odd Holter is the yard’s closest neighbor. He is in no doubt about what he means:

– Everything is wrong with this development, he says resignedly, as he points up the hill where a handful of new villas look out over the valley.

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Løvenskiold property started building Brennatunet last year. The sale poster promised ten “stately detached houses” in “a unique residential yard” within the land boundary.