From the BBC, following the journalistic guideline "Don't mention land or access to land! It's only about the physical building!":
Case One
Harriet Baggley, 24, her partner, Tom Offen, 25, and their son, Ruben, two, live in a van fitted with a log-burning stove, insulation and a makeshift kitchenette.
The 2008 Volkswagen Transporter 4, nicknamed "Iggy", has been their home since they left rented accommodation in April last year. They move their home-on-wheels to different spots every few days, spending two to three nights a week at a relative's more conventional home while helping them with child care.
They appear to be doing it the hard way, and I hope it works out for them.
Case Two
For Aubrey Fry, 37, and his wife, Clare, 34, life in a repurposed 40ft shipping container was only meant to be short term.
Three years later and the steel box is still home, sweet home. The pair moved to Hay-on-Wye, where Aubrey's family own a farm, after growing frustrated with London property prices. They wanted to keep their costs low, while building their new home and business premises on the land, and Aubrey had an itch to try something different.
Yes, the couple have access to free land. On her parents' farm.
Aubrey would also appear to be stupidest man in the UK:
"I've always wanted to develop a shipping container and make it into a home," Aubrey said. "There are millions of them all over the world, they get used once and then get taken out of action; and I think they are a good space to live in."
Correct, he actually said "they get used once"
Case Three
Tom, who lives in Porthleven, Cornwall, is hoping to build his [tiny home aka caravan], mount it on a trailer and then move it between his friends' smallholdings.
So he's an intermediate case between the Baggleys and the Frys. What will happen when his friends get tired of him, or some officious planner tell him that he's not allowed to live on a smallholding semi-permanently?
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I met someone recently who told me that a neighbour of his had tired of trying to get PP for building a house on some land that he owned, so constructed a large pond/small lake, for which you don't need PP, and on that lake put a houseboat, for which you also don't need PP and now lives in the houseboat.
B, that's a bit Marie Antoinette.
"Let the homeless dig themselves lakes and live in house boats".
Let's hope that modular homes become more and more popular. Then people can really see how much they are getting ripped off on land.
M, it will be brushed under the carpet.
Did you watch the TV programme about people building their own homes for less than £100,000?
Of course you can build a nice house for that much, right at the end, they mumbled something like "of course, the plot cost another £100,000".
They will charge him rent as usual.
Heard this story many times form my tent. Was quite sad. So show sympathy. Sure, they may be dumb. Your duty is to help them see how they can meet own obligations, not seek their punishment.
@mombers, actually the modular homes are more a rip off than non. Due to planet saver marketing. And look at the new policy proposal to abolish gas heating and cooking - which will raise the price of bricks and mortar even more.
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