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Rob R



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 12:23 am    Post subject: Eco-home with land up for sale Reply with quote
    

The only catch is that it's in the South

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Shane



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The solar panels wouldn't have worked up north, silly

jamanda
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You've reminded me I told my friend who is selling up I'd post a link to her smallholding on here. I'd get onto it this evening.

JohnB



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What about the environmental damage done earning the money to pay for it?

Shane



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's a tough one to get into as, for a full analysis, you'd have to come up with estimates of what would have happened to the land otherwise (housing estate? non-eco friendly house?) and, assuming that the money would have been earned anyway (as the job presumably needed doing), the environmental impact of other things that the money could have been spent on.

Rob R



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's a weird one to get into as it implies that everything you do has an impact, which only leaves the option of not existing.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

JohnB wrote:
What about the environmental damage done earning the money to pay for it?


Same could be said for the NHS and all public services.

As it has in effect 5 bedrooms though I wouldn't personally call such homes 'eco' unless 3 or 4 couples are living there.

Even if it does have plenty of benefits it looks very expensive to me considering it has an ag tie and only 20 acres.

gardening-girl



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Anything in that area is expensive.Dorset is the new Cornwall.

Piggyphile



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 12 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So how do you farm 'bottoms'?
Does the Ag tie allow you to farm other things?
I thought that Westminster had the monopoly on farming bottoms.

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