We’re currently planning a move back to Bristol for the middle of next year. Hopefully we’ll be able to purchase a family home within a month or so of getting back there. The Eco Home is quite a long way off, but as part of this next move I’ve already started building (in my head) an off grid office cube / summer house down the end of the garden (that’s pretty typical of me, we’ve not even seen any houses and I’m already planning what to do with the garden).

Our budget is most likely going to limit us to a three bedroom house. I work from home so I need office space which we wouldn’t have in a three bed. This office cube (read desk in a shed) could satisfy that need and at the same time be an experiment into the self build off grid world.
Watching a few self build cabin videos on YouTube has got me thinking, and sketching…

Seems verandas aren’t possible without planning permission:
https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/43/outbuildings