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

GDB2222

twopenny said:

The question how to get permission is to build in a derelict property footprint I would think and have a heck of a lot of money to pay for shipping materials and trades to that location.

But there are plenty ready built and modernised. I searched isolated cottages and some unusual routes bought me to some.
This one is lovely and for the property a reasonable price. You couldn't build one for that
https://www.johngoodwin.co.uk/property?for-sale-id=10468&search=sales

You certainly can't get permission to put up a pre fab in countryside and every bit of land belongs to someone.
Having said that a job I had one of the researchers found the hillock he regularly had his lunch on was free of title! Very unusual 

I’m not sure what you mean. It’s 62 sq metres, so I would expect to be able to build it for £200k at London prices, £3000 psm. 

zagubov

This is taking me back. Friends were fascinated by remote living and subscribed to a a very niche magazine or journal called something like "In the Sticks" which included properties like remote railway stations that had  a mile of their own track. This was before the internet of course.
They ended up living near a small village in the lake district so they did achieve their dream to some extent.
I don't share their aspirations.

flaneurs_lobster

I know people who "play" at this remote living - main home in city, second home in middle of nowhere (well, 3 hour drive with last bit on private unmade road after getting off a ferry. How they justify tootling around town in a Range Rover. Say they'll retire there once the kids have finished (private) school. 

Bet they don't. 

mark_cycling00

There is/used to be a scheme where you could build a livable home in a forest that you either managed or earned your income from, but you could not sell the property to anyone who was not going to do the same.

If you genuinely want to (and can demonstrate that you'll be successful) take your family to live in a remote rural location, and will build something sympathetic and "eco' then there are several councils who will be supportive. SW Wales area, even Stroud in the Cotswolds. 
But have no time for 2nd home owners, or dreamers 

monkey-fingers

mark_cycling00 said:

There is/used to be a scheme where you could build a livable home in a forest that you either managed or earned your income from, but you could not sell the property to anyone who was not going to do the same.

If you genuinely want to (and can demonstrate that you'll be successful) take your family to live in a remote rural location, and will build something sympathetic and "eco' then there are several councils who will be supportive. SW Wales area, even Stroud in the Cotswolds. 
But have no time for 2nd home owners, or dreamers 

You're right. The agricultural and foresters rights thing still exists, although it's expected that at least for the first 3 years you live in a caravan. And you need to prove that you have to be on-site.

Wales does allow eco homes, but there are strict rules about those being entirely self-sustainable. Having seen some of these on TV (and the number that fail), it's not simple at all.