The fact you have clicked on this site means that you are already interested in cheaper living.
Gone are the days when you can enter “Under £50,000” in the drop down box of any web site selling houses and have hundreds to choose from – these days you get only a handful.
Luckily, this bus does fall in that category, but why are we selling a bus to live in?
In the current climate, many people are finding themselves mortgage cripples, with all their wages effectively paid out before they get them. With all the uncertainty surrounding interest rates and house prices, people are beginning to look at downsizing and getting out of their expensive mortgages before the get into negative equity.
Moving to a smaller house is an option, and the option most people will choose, but we are giving people another option. One where people can escape the clutches of the mortgage company completely and stop paying a fortune for the “privilege” of having a roof over their heads.
For people already choosing to take this course of action, static caravans or lodges would be the obvious choices. The lodge being a good choice in terms of space, a poor choice in terms of cost. The static being the opposite – a positive being the cost, a negative being the space, or lack of it.
A double decker bus manages to give you both of these advantages. A cost most people can afford outright, or with a small loan, and a size that can be lived in comfortably. A double decker is about one and a half times the size of the average static. Of course there is another big plus to a bus – it is mobile. You no longer need to live in the same place every day – if you fancy waking up near the coast or in the middle of the countryside you can.
So how else is bus living cheaper?
The park aims to look at harnessing cheaper forms of energy for you, helping you to reduce your carbon footprint in the process. Solar panels on the bus and wind turbines on site will eventually provide the majority of your energy. Until such time, mains electricity on site is metered so you only pay for what you use. Red diesel will also be available on site to power your generator and cooking facilities.
The park is set up as a touring park. So, since you will have a registered address elsewhere in the UK, there is no council tax or TV licence to pay.
Cheaper living does not only come whilst living at the park. A battery conversion kit fitted on the bus will store energy from the bus whilst it is in transit. This, is addition to large water tanks and a red diesel tank on board ensure there is no need to book into costly camp sites when on the move. You can be truly self-sufficient.
For those who live abroad for part of the year and want somewhere to come back to for a few of months each year, it should be noted that the annual ground rent on the pitch is comparable to only 3 months in rented accommodation (and is far superior!)