Why is it so hard to find land for sale?
In the next 4 to 5 years we are looking to move out of the big smoke. We are anti-social bastards so looking for a house in the country with no neighbours. One of the options is maybe a self build via a kit house.
There do not seem to be any good land for sale sites that you don't have to pay for. And what land I have found is mostly to build multiple small houses on.
I assume that new planning laws are geared towards building lots of small houses due to the housing shortage. So anybody like me looking to upsize to a new build is turned off the idea.
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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
One avenue is to find a small house or bungalow with land attached, demolish and rebuild.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Look for plots where you're not going to get permission for a small development type development. That needs to be outside village development boundaries, and not an old farm where you could convert separate outbuildings into separate dwellings.
Few and far between though.
And they tend to be at the end of dirt tracks, rather than on avenues.
It's because of corruption in the council system, and because of concerns about the green belt.
A friend of mine lives in Oxford. His family owns some land. They're not allowed to build on it. The family owns it. The council says no.
Go figure that out.
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Good luck with your search, but I suspect the last couple of years of more people homeworking/escaping the cities has eaten up the supply, or at least pushed prices up.
Sometimes it's to stop building on floodplains. Or building where there's inadequate infrastructure. Or building a towerblock in someone's back garden. Or protecting the greenbelt*. Or destroying natural habitats. Or because the backhander wasn't big enough.
*For those who live in London, the "greenbelt* isn't what Greta uses to keep her trousers up.
The truth is, the council wants them to sell the land to a developer. Some shenanigrannies going on....