The future - back to living in straw huts

[milanbenes]

no wonder it on'y cost 4k, it's tiny, what is, a studio house built in the highlands !!

Milan.

[DodgyAgent]

Sewage goes out the window then ?

Or in Milan's case "in" the window, where he then muddies it up and pastes it on this site!

[bogeyman]

The house I live in currently has a straw roof and many of the walls are made from mud. It was built in 1600, so I'd suggest there's no'w't wrong with the materials.

Agree.

Easy to work, durable and energy-efficient. Kept our ancestors sheltered for many thousands of years. A bit flammable roof-wise, but otherwise top notch.

Modern building materials offer only aesthetic advantages (to some), rather than practical ones.

If I could build my dream house, it would either be a mud/straw shell, wood, or a cast concrete shell. Can't decide which. You can keep your bricks!

[Diver]

Sewage goes out the window then ?

Ah! the good old days

Plague anyone?

[Bear]

I saw something like that on Grand Designs a couple of years ago.

Do you need planning permission to put a haystack in your field?

No you don't - that was the plan of the farmer who couldn't get planning to build a house so he built it anyway and put a huge haystack around it so no-one could see it.

He now has to tear the house down - after living in it for a number of years.

I'd post a link if I could be arsed

[Bear]

No you don't - that was the plan of the farmer who couldn't get planning to build a house so he built it anyway and put a huge haystack around it so no-one could see it.

He now has to tear the house down - after living in it for a number of years.

I'd post a link if I could be arsed

I could be arsed

Here

[PAH]

I could be arsed

Here

Interesting:

a house that stands for four years without objection had a legal right to remain.

With the general incompetence of government and councils 4 years should be easy as long as you keep the locals sweet so they don't report you. They probably only use google maps nowadays to identify new structures, so just make sure it's on the edge of a sensitive location such as a US air base!

I wonder what the outcome was then, seeing as it was due in feb?

[Marina]

No you don't - that was the plan of the farmer who couldn't get planning to build a house so he built it anyway and put a huge haystack around it so no-one could see it.

He now has to tear the house down - after living in it for a number of years.

I'd post a link if I could be arsed

I think you got the order wrong (not entirely sure). But I seem to recall the farmer started by building the huge haystack, and then managed to build the castle by tunneling around inside the haystack without ever leaving any of the building visible from outside.

[threaded]

NSFW http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2690

[expat]

no wonder it on'y cost 4k, it's tiny, what is, a studio house built in the highlands !!

Milan.

I do believe that you are sadly out of touch with house prices in the Highlands. Most of the buyers are recent sellers of properties in SE England, so that does tend to determine the size of the demand and its bank; the number of houses for sale there relative to the population of SE Englanders who fancy retiring to the Highlands determines the supply. The resulting supply/demand intersection is not where you might expect it to be if you thought it was cheap just because there's no work there.