Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010
A bargain for all
Dailymail: LOW price housing hits the market
we’re talking weird and wonderful bespoke creations that cost anything up to £30,000
Posted by mark @ 01:56 PM (1158 views) Add Comment
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1. drewster said...
These are garden sheds, not houses. They don't have plumbing.
2. sibley's love child said...
May I present to you the cardboard box; the ultimate in edgy, bohemian living. A self-contained unit with all mod-cons at your finger-tips. The deluxe range also includes the corrugated iron shack; for when stability is a must for the discerning family-man. Don't like your neighbours; then pack-up and go! Council-tax will be a thing of the past...
Coming to a shanty-town near you.
3. rumble said...
What's the low down on greenbelt building and planning? If an underground dwelling leaves the fields intact, is that ok? What about an elaborate treehouse? When is a house a house - when it's fixed to the ground? What about stilts, or rollers? Or a Gadaffi tent? Or an anchored dirigible?
4. mark wadsworth said...
Those are really ugly sheds.
But this reminds me of one of my thought experiments - wouldn't we all be better off if we lived in them static caravans and rented a pitch whereever it suited us? So if you suffer from noisy neighbours etc, you just wait until a pitch is free a few hundred yards away. if you change jobs, you hire a big lorry and take your caravan elsewhere, second-homers would be welcome to have second-caravans, but they wouldn't take up as much space as second homes. And if you're rich or posh, you rent a very big pitch in a nice area and plonk down three or four caravans to make a more stylish home. And old people who go into care but have a sentimental attachment to their caravan can have it moved to a smaller/cheaper plot somewhere else in the village, etc.
It'd be land value tax by the back door. Nobody would be able to say "it's a tax on my main asset" because there'd be no tax on the caravan itself.
5. sibley's love child said...
Quite MH, my mother did exactly that. Sold-up, inadvertantly, at the height of the boom and bought a static caravan in 2007. The only downside is the key condition of her 'pitch' is that she can only stay there for 11 months per year; vacating in February. Presumably this is to prevent the, ahem, travelling community.
Needless to say, she's never been happier and still works at the same time.
6. sibley's love child said...
MW, even.
D'oh.
7. mark said...
sibley has the CAPTCHA got you?
GET RID OF CAPTCHA CAMPAIGN
8. sibley's love child said...
mark, either that or too much coffee.
Re: the captcha campain (pun) i'll e-mail the webmaster; i've found them very helpful in the past.
9. sibley's love child said...
Double d'oh; just noticed that Drewster has already done so (on the squatter thread).
10. drewster said...
There's a moral to this story. Complaining on internet forums is about as useful as complaining to people in the pub. Real results require nothing more than a quiet word with the people in charge. Talk to your local MP about house prices.