outdoorcode said:
But if I did move on and was ordered off by the council, I would then be homeless (I was going to give up my rented house), and I wasn't planning on becoming a "traveller"
Hi mate,
I dont know the laws of your nation but I know that in germany or here in sweden you can lease very cheap a chunk of land. If you lease your land you are pretty free to do as you please and its cheap compare to renting a house.
Probably the only laws you have to watch are the common laws applied to campers. If I would be you, I would lease some spot and start living there and see what happend. If you ask to many stupid question you will get a lot of stupid answeres.
I did this here. They are very restricted to give you the right to build a cabin near ot the shoreline of a lake. Even if a lot of rich guys got it done somehow do they give us poor fellows a hard time. So I said to them ok, than I am not building a cabin but live in a tipee instead, do you have laws on that too? He said if I have a permanent camp with a tipee longer than a week I will have to have to ask for permission similar to the building permission. I said that is nuts as I dont want to pay for a blueprint sketch of the tipee, like you would have to do for a cabin design, etc etc. I said to him that I am going to move around on my own plot than, staying less than a week on one spot and move the tipee some hundered meters around. The guys face changed red and he got very angry shouting at me that this is forbidden and I only want to bypass the law.
When I told my good old neigbour about the meeting he simply said:
"Dont ask stupid questions" nobody bothers if you dont push their nose into the subject.
cheers
Abbe