Trailer-like homes are attracting people struggling to buy or rent a house. Our writer went to size one up
You might bump your head, and the wheels betray its caravan roots, but it’s yours – and that’s the key for a growing number of people fleeing the UK housing crisis in a “tiny home”.
Barber is looking to buy a unit from Ross Clarke, who runs Minor Homes, a new company that has supplied timber-frame units to clients in Oxfordshire and Dorset. They can be hooked up to mains electricity and water, with sewage through a cesspit. Janie Harper, 33, a project manager in Dorset who has been living in a van after finding rent unaffordable since divorcing her husband with whom she shared a four-bedroom house, plans to move into a £50,000 tiny home next spring, which she intends to locate on a friend’s land.She wants to stay in the Lyme Regis area but said that with so many second homes in the area, rent was unaffordable at about £1,300 a month.
Clarke said that if a tiny home was located on agricultural land and the resident had a smallholding, then it could be allowed on the basis that they need to live there to look after the land. He said a tiny house could be classed as a static caravan, but he wants the government to consider them as a new separate planning class because they have architectural merit.
She said key reasons for choosing to build tiny homes were the idea of “sufficiency, having enough not too much”, limiting the use of resources so “we’re not going to be overshooting planetary boundaries,” and keeping costs down so homes are genuinely affordable.
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