Land with hut versus cottage?

AdrianC

FreeBear said:

katerinaemalina1 said: I’ve registered for plots of land to be flagged to me in Suffolk when they come up and they are a mixed bunch.

Something like this ?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-54390886.html

Be very, very careful with plots like these - They are often sold under the guise of some land banking scheme. The chances of the land ever being developed for housing is (often) extremely remote and you risk losing your money and being lumbered with a worthless patch of mud.

The very fact that plot has been listed on RM as for sale since May 2018 says a lot...

GDB2222

AdrianC said:

FreeBear said:

katerinaemalina1 said: I’ve registered for plots of land to be flagged to me in Suffolk when they come up and they are a mixed bunch.

Something like this ?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-54390886.html

Be very, very careful with plots like these - They are often sold under the guise of some land banking scheme. The chances of the land ever being developed for housing is (often) extremely remote and you risk losing your money and being lumbered with a worthless patch of mud.

The very fact that plot has been listed on RM as for sale since May 2018 says a lot...

Not as many mugs around, you mean?

nimbo

You also need to consider how you’d get things like water. Electric. Maybe gas and what would be happening when you flushed the toilet. 

A run down cottage that needs work would likely have these issues resolved. Whereas a piece of land would not answer these questions. 

Davesnave

katerinaemalina1 said:

However I’m now thinking what about buying a patch of land instead and having a shepherds hut on it. Two benefits - I won’t be that awful second home owner! And I can invest effort into creating land that is great for nature.

In what way would you not be a second home owner? Surely a 'shepherd's hut' placed in the landscape is just as much a second home as any other building people live in temporarily during the year?

Quite apart from the practicalities of servicing such a dwelling, you would also have to think about the security of something sitting in a country location with no one looking after it for the majority of the time. These buildings aren't cheap and they're eminently combustible, so they might be best suited for placing in a garden or similar location, where I see them quite often. They're a lot of fun, but a Scandinavian type chalet would be my preference. I know someone who lives in his all summer and I don't think he's bothered to tell anyone in authority what the 'big shed' really is at the end of his acre of garden!