Man fined by council for camping on his own property

[ignhelper]

Isn't the guy who build shit in the forest with trees on youtube Australian as well

Does that mean the same thing could happen to him?

[It's crispy]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;53189115]Isn't the guy who build shit in the forest with trees on youtube Australian as well

Does that mean the same thing could happen to him?[/QUOTE]

He doesn't live in the forest so probably not

[Trekintosh]

[QUOTE=Krahn;53189073]This isn't about him living these: it's about the conditions he is living under.

They require certain facilities to qualify a land as a "home"; similar to zoning laws restricting what can be built/used-as-a-X and where. These laws prevent, say, BP from building an oil refinery in a residential area.

Exaggerated example, you get my point, but these things happened. They would build factories, in the early industrial years, right next to a block of houses; pollution be damned.

Two examples are given in the article:
- He is required to have a septic tank.
- He is required to have a mains water line.

These are valid requirements for something be considered a home and where someone may live.

Without a septic tank, what happens to his bodily excrement? Does he bury it? Where does he bury it? If this guy dies, who's going to pay to clean up the soil? etc. Soil pollution from this type of waste can be serious bio-hazard.

Without mains water, where exactly is he getting his water? The local river? Who owns that river then? Does he collect rainwater and purify it? Many purifiers have a waste product, where is that waste product going?

These kind of regulations exist to protect people against a "tragedy of the commons"; a situation where every individual acts in their own interest, causing damage to the community.

I respect this guy wanting to live by himself and be left alone, but he has to abide by the same rules as everyone else, that protect the community at large. It's not as simple as "old man shouting from hill to be left alone, goverment says no."[/QUOTE]

RVs have septic tanks fwiw.

They also have very large freshwater tanks (I think my RV was somewhere in the region of 60-80 gallons) and the capability to accept a water line from the city as well.