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One of the big problems, at least in the overcrowded UK, is getting your hands on a suitable parcel of land in an area sympathetic to this sort of development.
by _mulder_ 12y ago
One of the big problems, at least in the overcrowded UK, is getting your hands on a suitable parcel of land in an area sympathetic to this sort of development.
- arethuza 12y agoGetting planning permission is probably more of a problem than finding somewhere that this would fit in - plenty of empty space in Wales and Scotland. e.g. In the case of Scotland we're mostly all crowded into the rift valley of the Central Belt: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/chskeystatisticsscotlandpopulationdensity2010map_tcm77-274722.png http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/chskeystatisticsscotland... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Belt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Belt
- dbingham 12y agoThis is a problem in the US as well. There are numerous ecovillages way out in rural areas in counties with relatively lax regulations, places like Dancing Rabbit (http://www.dancingrabbit.org/ http://www.dancingrabbit.org/) and Earthhaven (http://www.earthaven.org/ http://www.earthaven.org/), but there are many more communities where you can't even plant a garden. You have to maintain a perfect lawn or else. I live in an ecovillage that is attempting this sort of building in a (small) city. It's a city that is generally friendly to our efforts, but city, county and state code still make it pretty much prohibitively expensive. We're still trying to find a way through it, at least to a happy medium.