’It can flip quickly from being idyllic’: the reality of life for young van dwellers priced out of Cornwall’s housing market
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Shame that you require planning permission to live in a temporary structure on your own land and they almost certainly won't grant it. Could very easily be nicer than living in a van and in many places cheaper - at least until you spend extra on optional improvements. Could even grow some of your own food as you have vast amounts of land instead of the back of a van.
Such bullshit that it's illegal to go and live in the woods. Maybe I want to become a mountain man, only going into town on rare occasions.