Long ago, I was looking at buying woodland, rather than a bricks and mortar house.
I recall that you could put up a building for forestry workers to live in and equipment stores. But they could only live there for something like 9 (?) months in a year.
So I planned to register the land as two separate plots, owned in different names. Put a concrete pad down that straddled the border, with a a static caravan. Then just push the van back and forth over the border, when the time was up.
OK it's being cheeky, but it could keep the authgorities tied up in paperwork for years and years. (Find land that straddles a county border and see them sweat!)
Eventually I just brought a house.
And last year, built a little yurt in the garden.
I had some materials that I could not bring myself to skip, and a beer conversation was had with a friend, and.... Beers with friends now occur in the yurt.
I recall that you could put up a building for forestry workers to live in and equipment stores. But they could only live there for something like 9 (?) months in a year.
So I planned to register the land as two separate plots, owned in different names. Put a concrete pad down that straddled the border, with a a static caravan. Then just push the van back and forth over the border, when the time was up.
OK it's being cheeky, but it could keep the authgorities tied up in paperwork for years and years. (Find land that straddles a county border and see them sweat!)
Eventually I just brought a house.
And last year, built a little yurt in the garden.
I had some materials that I could not bring myself to skip, and a beer conversation was had with a friend, and.... Beers with friends now occur in the yurt.
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