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UK Unoccupied dwellings, stats please?

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  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    An eco settlement is going to be built at the bottom of our garden.

    www.earthship.co.uk has a video on the construction process.......it's a bit difficult to find on the site but could be in media section and has a great american voiceover. It will be the first estate built by the company over here...under section saying "planning permission granted".

    Sorry, am not a techy type so no links.

    We only rent here, so I have been been passing the local protest stuff on to our landlady. PP has now been granted.

    I confess that I wanted to sell our london home (made of bricks, glass and steel etc with garage and driveway!) and considered purchasing one of these homes.
    OH said "you're having a laugh...am not swapping house made of bricks etc for one made of tyres, tin cans and old bottles"
    The developer had a write up in The Standard couple of months back,......a 1 bed starts at £500k (:eek: )

    However, the locals' protests didn't prevent this PP....probably because earthship are building 16 homes to include 6 HA ones....the council have been overrun with potentilal HA applicants as these will only cost £70 pwk.

    Apparently, the site has had a load of PP applications over the years....seems, now, that if it is an ECO devt, normal PP rules are bent.


    Good luck with your protest....love the dog coat!!!!!!
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    FB = facebook. It's a website.
  • Phirefly
    Phirefly Posts: 1,605 Forumite
    Heheh we made it into the media. Doggy Doo Dah strutting her stuff across the sceens of ITV Central news and Phirey quotes in the local press :cool:
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Grand looking hound you have there madam.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    FB = facebook. It's a website.
    Derr..the acronym got me...I check my son's to see what he's up to? And he doesn't know! Handy huh!

    Just updating The Earthship devt DIDN'T get past the last stage of PP yesterday.
    There are covenants on the land. It is in the hands of The Land Tribunal and could delay a decision by a few months.

    It is a rubbish paper but Argus ran an article on it......
    http://www.theargus.co.uk/search/display.var.1998933.0.earthship_scheme_could_be_delayed.php

    Will your eco town go through?
  • Phirefly
    Phirefly Posts: 1,605 Forumite
    fc123 wrote: »
    Will your eco town go through?
    Its all gone very quiet, we were told a decision would be made by the end of January, so I suppose it'll all erupt sometime soon....
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