Posts and info on sustainable rural living in England and Wales – including navigating the planning system and ideas for intentional communities
Wildhousing is a growing collection of posts exploring topics such as low impact development, natural building, and land-based livelihoods. Alongside the posts, you’ll find a series of information pages, for those wanting to dig deeper.
The site is here to support individuals and groups to take forward their projects for sustainable rural living. There are also some ideas for new intentional communities – offered as inspiration and starting points for collaboration.
The creator of Wildhousing works in town and country planning in South West England and has a longstanding interest in rural sustainable living, ecovillages, etc. Guest blogposts are welcome – see below for how to get involved.
For latest blogposts, see Posts | For blog archive, see Blog
For information pages, see Pages
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Blogpost topics
affordable housing agricultural worker Anastasia Back to nature Back to the land Biodiversity Net Gain cohousing community-led conversion Cornwall countryside Cymru Dartmoor Devon dwelling ecovillages England environment family homestead Intentional community Kins Doman local plan local planning authority low impact new home Off Grid one planet development permitted development rights Planning planning permission planning policy Powys regenerative Regenerative Settlement rewilding Ringing Cedars self-sufficiency smallholding South West sustainability sustainable tiny homes UK Vladimir Megre Wales
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