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Re:Building a modern home in the woods by Litost on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:52PM (#30201332)
We tend to be quite building inspection heavy over here in the UK but I gather if you work with people who know the system well, you can get off-grid style buildings built. Hopefully this is quite a useful example that featured on two episodes of Grand Designs.

Original: https://vimeo.com/28848933

Revisited (apologies for the C4 link which requires hoops to watch): https://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs-revisited/...

Ben Law's website: https://ben-law.co.uk/

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Re:Building a modern home in the woods by CalRobert on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:24AM (#30204207)
The UK (and Ireland) both make it default-illegal to build things and then you have to beg a bunch of church elders on the council to let you build your house, and they'll decide if it's pretty enough, but there is _one_ cool thing the UK is doing - http://www.oneplanetcouncil.org.uk/ - making it easier to do off-grid living in Wales.
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