A friend bought one like the first one. He commutes to Bristol.
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Is it possible to buy a cheap house?
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10 years if you're changing land use; 4 years if it was residential anyway.
Rob
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In your State, perhaps. It certainly existed in California when I had some mods done to my house.
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You want a but'n'ben. They probably don't exist outside the Scottish Highlands.
JGH
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Yeah, sorry :) I meant here as in where I live, not here as in the country as a whole. Things like this are a lot finer-grained than the state level, incidentally; the other side of the road which passes our house is in a different township and so has all sorts of rules and regulations (although still v. relaxed) that we don't.
We *do* have an electrical code to abide by, and that's one area that's probably comparable to the UK - permits and inspections needed, rules governing what the "non qualified" DIYer can do etc. (all with associated costs, of course).
cheers
Jules
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On a similar note, there's plenty of derelict stuff in Scotland or Ireland if you feel like more of a challenge...
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fact there's plenty of all sorts in Ireland in that kind of price range...
Theo
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OK, it lacks some things (such as mains water, elec, and a building - ok it's a field), but how about a croft on the Isle of Rum?
The Nic mentioned in that is a slighty crazy (or possibly eminently sensible, depending on your POV) friend of ours. They moved to Rum in April, have managed (with some trials and tribulations to get a mobile home up onto the croft, (pending the building of some kind of house), have various animals and are loving it :-)
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holiday homes, and they all appear to have living restrictions. For instance, you can't live in them permanently because the site they're on closes in the winter. Or you must have another main permanent residence in the UK.
Having to pay ground rent is OK, but some of those holiday park homes charge thousands of pounds per year, for some kind of pitch fee / service charge.
at the moment. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Perhaps widen your rightmove search, and be sure to add (or filter by) 'auction'.
And retain local estate agents, architects and development surveyors. You'd have to negotiate a finder's fee - I'd suggest £1000 for what you're after.
Rob
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holiday homes, and they all appear to have living restrictions. For instance, you can't live in them permanently because the site they're on closes in the winter. Or you must have another main permanent residence in the UK.
Having to pay ground rent is OK, but some of those holiday park homes charge thousands of pounds per year, for some kind of pitch fee / service charge.
at the moment. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.
If what you are looking for is a cheap permanent place to buy where you could live, you can buy a 1,000 sq ft factory unit in SE England for under £75k. I expect they are cheaper in, say, mid-Wales. You would never get planning permission to make it residential and you would need to pay business rates (I forget what they were when I paid them and they vary from area to area) and probably an estate management fee - £260 pa for one I rent out. It will come with mains water and electricity and probably wiring for at least four telephones, possibly more if it is a recent build.
Claim to be a wholesaler of domestic furnishings, selling by direct drop to customer from the factories, and you could turn the interior into a 'showroom' with examples of furnishings for every room in the house. Black out the very few windows most factories have and drive a van with the company name on, which would not look odd parked outside overnight, and nobody would even need to know you were actually living there.
Colin Bignell
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Thanks for that correction. For some reason, LA planning web sites are rather quiet about how to circumvent the regulations and I was looking at the house built inside a haystack, which was on residential land.
Colin Bignell
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can be. Years ago I looked at them and 10k on a pitch versus 60k for the cheapest 1 bed maisonnette.
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We're not talking about "years ago", try to do it now.
And you can only select properties which are available for 12 month occupation.
The ones with restricted occupation are cheap for exactly that reason, no other
tim
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On a similar note, there's plenty of derelict stuff in Scotland or Ireland if you feel like more of a challenge...
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at those prices most of those look overpriced to me
tim
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However, you could probably install a caretaker's / night watchman's flat within the existing business use.
Owain
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Owain
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On account of needing to keep a 24hr watch on those hard to source half-round tuits.
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hoping to find a detached dwelling outside of any "compound". When I say compound, I mean any type of holiday park / campsite / communal area. Thanks.
abandon if/when the local authority detect it. Google for pictures of the Hobbit House; built, inhabited, abandoned. I suspect the local toe-rags &/or pikeys would target anything remote enough not to arouse the planning department's attention.
That suggests a different approach - claim that building the shack and living in it is performance art. It might even win the Turner Prize.
Colin Bignell
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Since writing that, I have discovered that the Government is consulting on a proposal to allow a change from B1 (office / light business) use to C3 (dwelling house) without planning permission, which could well increase the value of some industrial property.
Colin Bignell
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Thanks very much for everyone's interesting replies. While thinking about = all of this, I've just come up with an idea:
Buy a cheap flat. So that's my main UK residence taken care of. Then let = it out##. Then buy any type of "park/holiday/caravan home", and live in it= for 11 months, or however long you're allowed to. During the winter, when= the holiday home needs to be vacated because of typical holiday park site = restrictions, either move back in to the flat, or go somewhere else. I'm n= ot sure where "somewhere else" could be though. Any ideas please? Thanks = a lot.
##Available to rent for about 10 months per year only - (not in winter).
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Thanks very much for everyone's interesting replies. While thinking about all of this, I've just come up with an idea:
Buy a cheap flat. So that's my main UK residence taken care of. Then let it out##. Then buy any type of "park/holiday/caravan home", and live in it for 11 months, or however long you're allowed to. During the winter, when the holiday home needs to be vacated because of typical holiday park site restrictions, either move back in to the flat, or go somewhere else. I'm not sure where "somewhere else" could be though. Any ideas please? Thanks a lot.
##Available to rent for about 10 months per year only - (not in winter).
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I don't get what it is that you are trying to do.
Why don't you just live in the cheap flat?
How cheap a property are you looking to buy (to live in)?
tim