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Living in my garden

A top lawyer begins a regular series advising off-grid readers how to get around the law and live in off-grid homes anywhere.

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Off-Grid 101

Great Yarmouth van dwellers targeted

REMAINS OF THE ROMAN CASTLE, BURGH, SUFFOLK..
Burgh Castle 1818

Self-employed Richard Thorne amd his family live a simple lifestyle near Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth — they recycle everything, grow their own vegetables and

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Unplugged – Guardian article

Nick Rosen
Nick Rosen in his research RV

Thousands of people are choosing to live in homes without mains electricity, gas or water. Are these the eco-townies of the future? The Guardian newspaper today features Nick Rosen’s call for changes to the law to encourage off-grid living. Here is the article in full.

I reckon there are 75,000 people living in nearly 25,000 off-grid homes in the UK. These are homes not connected to mains gas and electricity, water and sewage or even the phone lines that bind the rest of us into a system that wastes energy transporting it around the country, and loses up to 30% of water through leaks.
To get some idea of how many are living this way, I travelled round the UK for most of last year researching a book, How To Live Off-Grid. I met some of the thousands of normal families living this way, in everything from brick houses to yurts.

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