Alternative housing solutions

[M.C]

Anyone got any? Been mulling over a few:

A holiday park home - not 100% on this one (can you live in them?), but I saw an episode of homes under the hammer where they had former park homes that had a 50 week occupancy. Shortest I could find is 11 months: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57562598.html (which BCF'er is that living below?).

Buying some land and putting up some sort of alternative (so cheap) structure. I imagine this would be a planning nightmare, and land's pretty expensive. Converting shipping containers, Walter Segal self-build construction, that sort of thing.

Only other options are to really slum it, buying a house in Salford or somewhere equally shit, or living on a canal boat which doesn't appeal at all.

[Beehive Bedlam]

Move north.

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[Pigeon]

You can buy some really nice wooden houses (self build) with/without garage etc for £5-£40k depending on requirements.

I think they get round many planning laws by various means, but you'd need to look into it of course.

eg

https://www.cabinsuk.co.uk/planningpermission.html

[Rob Fzs]

More hassle than it's worth with this building on land crap, electric supply will be a fortune, as will water, then you have asshole neighbors blocking every possible plan you put in and so on
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[Polarbear]

Buy a canal boat, it's the 'in' thing at the moment. Everyone and their cat wants to live on the cut.
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[yen_powell]

There was an old couple in the papers a few years ago who lived in a Travel Lodge because it was cheaper then renting a place. Very cheap rates as they were long term stayers, no utility bills or council tax, and when they wanted a holiday they just moved to a different one for a few weeks.
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Buy a train ticket to France. live in a squat. claim asylum to England. Jump on the back of a lorry to England. tell them you are a child asylum seeker with 8 kids and want to do a masters degree in some crap wishy washy subject, get free house and loads of benefits. Job done.
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[Shaft]

Do what I did, buy a big touring caravan and find somewhere that lets you pitch it permanently.

I pay a weekly rent that's less than half what I was paying in London and includes all my utilities. plus I get to live in the countryside, but still only 45 minutes (less on the bike) from where I work.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Bloke at work lives in a holiday home*, just takes a 2 week holiday somewhere sunny every year in January.

* Shame it's Billing Aquadrome, which smells of shit most of the time.
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[P.]

Given my current circumstance, I've looked elsewhere and found that a holiday park home is a fucking sound idea.

I'd need to be off site for 4 weeks however at the one I'm looking at, fine, 2 weeks in summer, 2 weeks in winter... both somewhere hot

You get use of facilities, basic but included... who can say no to arcades and swimming pools. I'd be wrecking Tekken and Time Crisis every weekend.

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[M.C]

I'm not sure about the holiday home idea in an active park. In the first one I linked to I just spotted ground rent and the annual camp fee. This one: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62153477.html all year occupancy but £3850 a year in ground rent/service charge.

[Ste]

Holiday park homes are trailer park homes so your neighbours will be Cletus and Brandine Spuckler?

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[Alpineandy]

Over the years I've known quite a few people who've researched the possibility of going 'off-grid' (not just power, everything) but it's really difficult to do in the South East due to the population density.
If you want a plot of land then they usually cost a fortune (which makes the option unviable) or they're in the middle of nowhere which makes commuting a nightmare.

So they've usually ended up with either a houseboat or a mobile-home.
I had a friend that rented a houseboat around West Drayton for a couple of years (early 90s). It was a floating box on the outside and a tiny but warm comfortable box on the inside. He always had something to moan about like insects in the summer, a slight pong in late summer/early autumn if the river was low, the way the wind whistled down the tow-path in the winter etc, but overall he really enjoyed it. The one real negative as far as I could see was that he had to park his car 200+ yards away in a car park and carry everything down steps which would prevent a bike getting to the 'boat'. Although I'm sure many places don't have that problem.
Like me back then, he did some light maintenance to his car which involved him lugging his full tool-kit from the boat to the car every time he wanted to fiddle with anything. When he finally settled down in a house with his dragon... I mean girlfriend, the thing he was most pleased about was having a garage and shed..

A few people have tried Mobile-Homes (usually whilst renting out their house trying to reduce the mortgage). Again, finding a decent location at a decent price is a problem but possible. It's probably a better idea as you can park the bike next to it, but looking out your window every morning at a row of mobile homes and some of the complete non-entities that live in them (ONLY 'Some', not 'All') would be quite depressing.

I think you'd notice the seasonal changes more than when living in a house, but if you commute by bike then you'll already notice it anyway...

I don't think I could live in either whilst remaining in the UK. I would never buy a House or Flat here without a garage.

I should add that a few people have moved to North East Anglia, West Midlands and Wales to get 'off-grid', with an outer London bedsit and commuted every Monday morning & Friday evening....
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