Field

Dibs metal detecting the hypothetical field. Thanks

I assume the rights to this have already been sold to Amazon prime as the next Clarkson's Farm.

I think we should all be more grateful, generally speaking. It might alleviate some of the misery...

But then I wouldn't have the need to escape for a night in the masters surplus field

If mine comes off over the next couple months i reckon I could be happy to welcome forumengers down for the odd overnight camping trip.

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Eeek.

You're all doing this wrong. What we need is a list of things that need to be on a forum-approved field.

1) Velodrome
2) Clerkenwell Screws
3) Bike tags
4) The John Snow
5) A pineapple plantation
6) Shoreditch
7) A owls
8)

If mine comes off over the next couple months i reckon I could be happy to welcome forumengers down for the odd overnight camping trip.

Rough location? 🙂

Does this mean I have to buy a field?

About 500 metres off the North Downs Way just outside of Medway in Kent

I think my sister and her mates clubbed together and bought a field they use for camping. I think it has a tap with running water and a composter toilet

I reckon they're up for a bit of squatting

Ah, that takes me back to a few years mid nineties in abandoned buildings around Camden.

Wild thread, lots of ideas! Amongst all the other possible uses please make sure you leave enough space for a skid patch

I put the first post on the fediverse at the same time, and have been introduced to a couple of different people who have successfully purchased fields for rewilding, as modern commons, and been able to grant permissions for wild camping.

So apparently it's not a totally dumb idea. One of these folk also has solicitors now trained in this, and is able to access funding from farmers, developments and councils for biodiversity investments for part of the areas bought. He's also a regular bikepacker and nomadic worker, the guy who has done this, not the solicitor.

I'm sure there's still a maze of impossibile rules, but now I know a couple of people who have managed to navigate it in the past.

Fair.

2) Clerkenwell Screws

😂

1) Velodrome
2) Clerkenwell Screws
3) Bike tags
4) The John Snow
5) A pineapple plantation
6) Shoreditch
7) A owls
H) badly messed up lists
i)

I think it’s a fantastic idea and had thought of doing similar, but lacked the funds!
Watch out for access rights to fields, any weird limits on how many times you can access the field, AONB obviously, and I’d avoid being overlooked by houses.
Lot of work to maintain a field but some can be outsourced quite cheaply. As some have said, avoiding your stuff getting pinched is the main job!

That sounds good!

Oh to be clear, what the various people I've spoken to have bought is "degraded farmland", which is already open to far more possible uses than anything that is still graded as farmland of some kind.

Harry has taken a bit of a break, but is currently looking into bonded frames. He's got a rather swish prototype that blends 3D printed Ti dropouts and lugs, and a mix of Ti, stainless steel and carbon fibre tubes.

Sounds fun but an awful lot of work maintaining the plot. Who’s responsible for the upkeep, security, repairs, etc because you can’t rely on the idiots who’ll be frequenting 👋

I know 2 woods in the SE on that website for sale (and one sold), £100k doesn’t exactly get you much space.
My dad managed them for a decade as the owner lived abroad and security was the biggest problem particularly as it bordered a bridleway and the ‘do as you likey’s’ lived not far away.
Lost count of the times the padlocks and chains on the gates were replaced.

do as you likey’s

That’ll land you in hot water!

It’s a fact of life in some parts of the country. i’ll defend their right to keep their heritage alive which has a rich history across Europe along with persecution, people remember the holocaust but the Roma suffered and died in the camps too.

It’s just the casual attitude to ‘borrowing’ other peoples things i’m not a fan of. though most of that comes from a minority of the ‘gorjas’ who no longer subscribe to the travelling way of life of their previous generations.

also a ‘do as you likey’ is anyone who doesn’t give a toss about their actions.

One of these folk also has solicitors now trained in this

As has been highlighted by a few people there are a lot of laws and rules that the layperson won't be aware of and come unstuck by.

This is invaluable and a huge step to achieving this. Well done and look forward to seeing how it progresses.