How do people get permission to build homes in remote places?

somerandomusername

sheramber said:

I lived in a rural location. 

No street lights, no public transport. 

Nearest neighbour  1/2 mile away . 

Harvest time meant harvesting silage and hay will into the early hours depending on the weather.

Fox scarers  going off during lambing season 

Really tranquil! 

How did you find this home? Like did it just pop up on rightmove or whatever as a normal house or did you specifically search for something like "remote homes with land" or whatever. 

You can search for farms / land on rightmove but almost every plot of land being sold that is rural is designated for farming only and cannot be build on. And the plots that can be built on are normal residential plots in populated areas.

user1977

somerandomusername said:

sheramber said:

I lived in a rural location. 

No street lights, no public transport. 

Nearest neighbour  1/2 mile away . 

Harvest time meant harvesting silage and hay will into the early hours depending on the weather.

Fox scarers  going off during lambing season 

Really tranquil! 

How did you find this home? Like did it just pop up on rightmove or whatever as a normal house or did you specifically search for something like "remote homes with land" or whatever. 

You can search for farms / land on rightmove but almost every plot of land being sold that is rural is designated for farming only and cannot be build on. And the plots that can be built on are normal residential plots in populated areas.

Why don't you just buy a house which is already there?

somerandomusername

user1977 said:

somerandomusername said:

sheramber said:

I lived in a rural location. 

No street lights, no public transport. 

Nearest neighbour  1/2 mile away . 

Harvest time meant harvesting silage and hay will into the early hours depending on the weather.

Fox scarers  going off during lambing season 

Really tranquil! 

How did you find this home? Like did it just pop up on rightmove or whatever as a normal house or did you specifically search for something like "remote homes with land" or whatever. 

You can search for farms / land on rightmove but almost every plot of land being sold that is rural is designated for farming only and cannot be build on. And the plots that can be built on are normal residential plots in populated areas.

Why don't you just buy a house which is already there?

That's what I'm saying, what do I search for for homes like that to even show up on the search? On US property search sites you can refine your search by acreage so it shows homes with some acres of land. But no UK property sites have this option so finding homes with a lot of land is hard... 

user1977

somerandomusername said:

user1977 said:

somerandomusername said:

sheramber said:

I lived in a rural location. 

No street lights, no public transport. 

Nearest neighbour  1/2 mile away . 

Harvest time meant harvesting silage and hay will into the early hours depending on the weather.

Fox scarers  going off during lambing season 

Really tranquil! 

How did you find this home? Like did it just pop up on rightmove or whatever as a normal house or did you specifically search for something like "remote homes with land" or whatever. 

You can search for farms / land on rightmove but almost every plot of land being sold that is rural is designated for farming only and cannot be build on. And the plots that can be built on are normal residential plots in populated areas.

Why don't you just buy a house which is already there?

That's what I'm saying, what do I search for for homes like that to even show up on the search? On US property search sites you can refine your search by acreage so it shows homes with some acres of land. But no UK property sites have this option so finding homes with a lot of land is hard... 

Why do you want "a lot of land"? If you want a farm then there are specialist agents for those.

twopenny

You've just missed this one sold last year in the middle of moors and it's own beach. A couple of miles from the road. I've known about it for years 
https://www.tatler.com/gallery/glenthorne-house-devon-cliffside-coastal-estate-for-sale-for-pound7-million

I had a friend take 2 years to sell her mum's home in Scotland because it was too remote. That went very cheaply.

So you need to look in an area that appeals.
National parks, Scotland has loads of remote buildings. But as said, it's a lot more hard work living as such.
I used to stay with a great aunt in a cottage. Well for water. Rain water collection. Generator for lighting and an open fire or 3. It's a routine you get used to 
But I used to love it. 

somerandomusername

twopenny said:

You've just missed this one sold last year in the middle of moors and it's own beach. A couple of miles from the road. I've known about it for years 
https://www.tatler.com/gallery/glenthorne-house-devon-cliffside-coastal-estate-for-sale-for-pound7-million

I had a friend take 2 years to sell her mum's home in Scotland because it was too remote. That went very cheaply.

So you need to look in an area that appeals.
National parks, Scotland has loads of remote buildings. But as said, it's a lot more hard work living as such.
I used to stay with a great aunt in a cottage. Well for water. Rain water collection. Generator for lighting and an open fire or 3. It's a routine you get used to 
But I used to love it. 

£7million is a tad above my price range 

user1977 said:

somerandomusername said:

user1977 said:

somerandomusername said:

sheramber said:

I lived in a rural location. 

No street lights, no public transport. 

Nearest neighbour  1/2 mile away . 

Harvest time meant harvesting silage and hay will into the early hours depending on the weather.

Fox scarers  going off during lambing season 

Really tranquil! 

How did you find this home? Like did it just pop up on rightmove or whatever as a normal house or did you specifically search for something like "remote homes with land" or whatever. 

You can search for farms / land on rightmove but almost every plot of land being sold that is rural is designated for farming only and cannot be build on. And the plots that can be built on are normal residential plots in populated areas.

Why don't you just buy a house which is already there?

That's what I'm saying, what do I search for for homes like that to even show up on the search? On US property search sites you can refine your search by acreage so it shows homes with some acres of land. But no UK property sites have this option so finding homes with a lot of land is hard... 

Why do you want "a lot of land"? If you want a farm then there are specialist agents for those.

Cos I like not having neighbours... Pretty easy concept to understand I would have thought. 

WIAWSNB

somerandomusername said:

Cos I like not having neighbours... Pretty easy concept to understand I would have thought. 

And getting easier to understand with each post 😬

user1977

somerandomusername said:

Why do you want "a lot of land"? If you want a farm then there are specialist agents for those.

Cos I like not having neighbours... Pretty easy concept to understand I would have thought. 

Another pretty easy concept to understand is that very few modest-sized houses are going to come attached to lots of land which isn't used for anything other than a neighbour buffer. If you want "a lot of land which you don't have to farm" then you'll be looking at big country houses with big gardens.

Why can't you just rely on the fact that it's difficult for anybody else to get planning permission to build next door?

monkey-fingers

somerandomusername said:

user1977 said:

somerandomusername said:

sheramber said:

I lived in a rural location. 

No street lights, no public transport. 

Nearest neighbour  1/2 mile away . 

Harvest time meant harvesting silage and hay will into the early hours depending on the weather.

Fox scarers  going off during lambing season 

Really tranquil! 

How did you find this home? Like did it just pop up on rightmove or whatever as a normal house or did you specifically search for something like "remote homes with land" or whatever. 

You can search for farms / land on rightmove but almost every plot of land being sold that is rural is designated for farming only and cannot be build on. And the plots that can be built on are normal residential plots in populated areas.

Why don't you just buy a house which is already there?

That's what I'm saying, what do I search for for homes like that to even show up on the search? On US property search sites you can refine your search by acreage so it shows homes with some acres of land. But no UK property sites have this option so finding homes with a lot of land is hard... 

As I pointed out to someone yesterday, look around Lincolnshire.

A work colleague recently bought a 4 bed detached house for £350k with 6 acres of land.

BungalowBel

MyRealNameToo said:

Albermarle said:

It is a common misconception that the UK is very built up/urban.
On the ground, in certain parts of the country it may well seem so, but if you take a domestic flight you get a different picture.
The actual % built up area varies a bit depending on how it is calculated, but the usual figures are between 5 and 8%.

We are though, we are the 48 most densely populated countries, obviously the city states are crazily more dense than us with Monaco having 19,000 people per sq KM -v- the UK at 285, places like Portugal are less than half us with 114, but the real low ones are Norway at 15, Russia 8.6, Canada 4.5 and Greenland 0.03. 

Like all however our population isnt uniformly distributed but instead concentrated in urban areas but looking at the real low density countries they are no different but arguably even more extreme. 

But who wants to live in Greenland?

I for one don't want to live in the middle of nowhere, I like having facilities that I can access easily.

We lived in a village in Spain which was in the middle of nowhere, but it was a village not an isolated house and had all facilities apart from mains gas.  It had a shop, a church, eight bars (!), a school for young children,  the doctor came twice a week, ditto the pharmacy, the bank opened once a week.

That's as 'middle of nowhere' as I would like to be.

But each to their own, of course.