Hello everyone. I hope this is the best board to write this, so bare with me :)I have been saving up a lot of money, and I'd like to buy a block of land that is currently for sale near me. It's a great price, decent space, it's in a perfect location near my work, friends and family, etc.The only problem is that it is zoned "farming zone", and as such, one cannot easily build a dwelling on it.So, I'd like to ask any Australians here if they have had experience with such a thing. Is there a "loophole" around building something? Or are there any other solutions?Thank you :)
>>2871753Australia is a weird one on farming land.Yoi have to get approval from the local council to build a home on it so thats going to vary based on whos serving on that particular council.And generally youre going to have to farm it- cant just get approval for a house then do whatever you want with it.Im guessing its not the original.pic (?)
>>2871756Nope, not the original pic :)Speaking of the council, they aren't great haha.One other thing in regards to farming zoned land is camping. Do you know if it would be possible for something like a permanant caravan?
>>2871757>permanantThats too much of a gamble.All it takes is 1 dickhead neighbor and you get evicted from your own property and now youre living in a motel.Its not just "its been parked here too long". You can run into issues with sewage management and now its "here's your fine for not having a septic system for an illegal semi-permanent residence".Trying to fly under the radar works until that new recruit picks up a bogey on the S400 and hits the fire button.You might have a council that doesnt give a shit and you get away anything for years then that one new guy comes in and you dont have approval for jack shit so he goes full scorched earth simply because hes drunk with power from his new piddly.ass position.
>>2871757>>2871760This is why our so called freedumbs are a joke. Not even allowed to live on the land we purchase unless you spend shitloads of money on a house or pick some rundown shithole in the middle of nowhere.Id happily pay 40 grand and camp in my own humble strip of bushland, but nooo that would mean escaping wagiedom and homelessness is too easy. If govt dont want shantytowns, they could just have population limits.
>>2871765There's actually a lot of land around me for sale, but because the government has designated it farming zone, it's all kind of just rotting.No one maintains it, and it doesn't even look good lol.
>>2871770That actually sucks. I'm on 40 acres of old farmland.>farmer died 40 some odd years ago.>wife stays in the farmhouse on social security until she passes.>property auctioned off for back taxes.>speculator buys it, cuts it into parcels and sells it off.I got half (originally 1 parcel then recently the adjoining parcel came back on the market) so the guy who got the other half is my only "neighbor". All the other lots are 200-500 acres.
