On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:25:19 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:
If you let people buy a bit of farmland and stick 1-4 houses on it with
the condition that build-build distance was say 1/4 mile, the
countryside would be preserved and villages would not be shoehorned to
bursting with rabbit hutches. There's an awful lot of green space down
here and having a house or small bunch of houses every 1/4-1/2 mile
would not ruin that, as you can see when you pass exactly such houses
that sprang up pre-planning- laws.

Infrastructure is more of a problem, but electricity, water and phones
are fairly easy to drop in. Drains are more of a problem, so such places
would probably need a klargester type setup.

That's not too far from what we have here, and everyone has 'leccy,
phone, 'net and TV to their property. Water is all from private drilled
wells, waste is all into septic systems.

The only planning and building laws are for electrical - other than that
you can do whatever you want, because it's not like it treads on anyone
elses' toes anyway.

cheers

Jules