Log cabin home

[Dean Lofthouse]

Anyone can buy a log cabin and a parcel of land, the hard part is getting planning to give you permission to live in it permanently, if it was that easy we'd all be doing it.

 

Planning was approved for a 10,000 square foot steel framed and clad building so I reckon two Eco low impact log buildings will be a lot easier to

Gain permission for

[Lee Winger]

Planning was approved for a 10,000 square foot steel framed and clad building so I reckon two Eco low impact log buildings will be a lot easier to

Gain permission for

 

I sincerely hope you get permission Dean, but its been my experience that planners and local busy body's don't like anything other than the norm for habitation. Planners down here are a bunch of

 

I hope you're planing department buck the trend

Edited May 13, 2012 by Steve Bullman
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[Peter]

Not impossible if you went about it the right way. You need something that requires you to live on site, if you earned a living from charcoal burning from your own coppice for instance.

 

I suggest getting a planning consultant involved sooner rather than later.

[josharb87]

Here dean, hope this works for the UK

 

Watch Grand Designs Season 5 Episode 3 Kent: Finnish Log Cabin

[Paul Barton]

I think it would be very unlikely to get planning permission for a log cabin in an urban area surrounded by trad brick houses. All about landscape character etc.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think it would be hard for any planners to object to such a build on real terms, theres a lot to be said for sustainable building materials. I think if Dean has any "planning issues" and was smart about it he could get round them with some careful sourcing and the right eco plan.

[Lee Winger]

Not impossible if you went about it the right way. You need something that requires you to live on site, if you earned a living from charcoal burning from your own coppice for instance.

 

I suggest getting a planning consultant involved sooner rather than later.

 

Charcoal would have to earn you minimum wage for 52 weeks a year, even if possible it still doesn't mean planners would grant permission for a log cabin.

 

Plus Deans land and house might be on the same land registry title, and therefore most probably won't come under agricultural policy.

Edited May 13, 2012 by Lee Winger

[Lee Winger]

I think it would be hard for any planners to object to such a build on real terms, theres a lot to be said for sustainable building materials. I think if Dean has any "planning issues" and was smart about it he could get round them with some careful sourcing and the right eco plan.

 

Not being funny Tony but have you ever dealt with a planning application Tony other than TPO? in real terms they're a bunch of envious dicks right eco plan or no eco plan.

 

I have a friend who tried for a proper eco house sod roof etc he's multimillionaire with access to the best legal team you can get, 10 years on he's still not built.

 

The only bloke I know who successfully erected luxury log cabins was a farmer who erected 6 cabins of holiday use.

[Mark Bolam]

Just crack on and build it Dean. If the planners say owt, just say you have Romany blood.

 

[RichardT]

We got pp on the basis of agricultural necessity - ie the house was tied to the establishment of a livestock business, and visible investment in the latter was required before the house build could start. (As it happens we didn't have the cash to build until we'd spent 2 winters in a static on site anyway, so it made no practical difference to the timing.) At least one other poster here is working through the same process, and another got pp and is building on the basis specifically of wood-based business activity on and around the site. So it can be done, but planners are certainly wise to development scams (build for business need, ditch the business immediately, flog the nice country house at a fat profit) and at the very least tend to write S75 type agreements into the pp.

 

Structure-wise, we though about solid log construction but for various reasons, speed among them, ended up using a SIPS system clad with larch. I'm sure they'd have equally happy with a log build .

 

As you can see it's mounted on springs for comfort: