Starting a new life in Wales

[dustiswhatweare]

.............. Plaid Cymru must be wondering what they can do next.

Bombing incomers' houses again???

They could try the Cornish method. Only locals get to buy proper pasties. Emmets and incomers only have one type available - strawberry and mustard flavour.

[Catweazle]

There is talk that second homes might need planning permission, similar to a 'change of use'. I've also heard of local properties with restrictive covenants blocking sale to people who already own a property, also restricting price increases to inflation levels in order to keep them 'affordable'. I expect to see more restrictions on new build property which will probably result in more small houses built, instead of the monster detached retirement houses currently appearing.

[Catweazle]

My neighbours 3 acre smallholding sold a couple of weeks ago, there were multiple offers, a Californian family won.

[Potemkin Villager]

instead of the monster detached retirement houses currently appearing.

Yum yum my favourites!! Have to be buck ugly. Many around here seem to be built with hot money
with a James Bond villain's lair look.

[clv101]

My neighbours 3 acre smallholding sold a couple of weeks ago, there were multiple offers, a Californian family won.

Good luck with your new neighbours!

[Catweazle]

My neighbours 3 acre smallholding sold a couple of weeks ago, there were multiple offers, a Californian family won.

Good luck with your new neighbours!

I'll be very sad to see them leave, they are fantastic neighbours, never intrusive but always quick to remind me that if ever the family need help just to ask.

When I hosted my son's wedding reception in a marquee here my neighbours came over and collected all the washing up after the meal, leaving us to enjoy the evening, they said it was their wedding present to my son. It all came back clean and stacked next day.

[Vortex2]

Emmets and incomers only have one type available - strawberry and mustard flavour.

I assume emmets are grockels.

[dustiswhatweare]

Emmets and incomers only have one type available - strawberry and mustard flavour.

I assume emmets are grockels.

Emmets - visitors to Cornwall
Grockles - visitors to Devon

[Potemkin Villager]

I can't remember what the Cumbrians call the 10 million visitors
the Lake District receive every year but do recall it is not very complimentary.

Many of the visitors we receive from Northern Ireland are generally referred to
as Wawas, due to their strange form of speech, or NIBS.

[Vortex2]

Emmets and incomers only have one type available - strawberry and mustard flavour.

I assume emmets are grockels.

Emmets - visitors to Cornwall
Grockles - visitors to Devon

Having been brought up in Devon I know the latter term well!

[dustiswhatweare]

Emmets and incomers only have one type available - strawberry and mustard flavour.

I assume emmets are grockels.

Emmets - visitors to Cornwall
Grockles - visitors to Devon

Having been brought up in Devon I know the latter term well!

Ditto, but I'm still here and the Grockles provide me with a living.

[UndercoverElephant]

Congratulations.
Do be careful WRT to dams, ponds, and the like. Large or unexpected releases of water can be dangerous. Is there any potential for hydroelectric power ? Just a few hundred watts if available 24/7 during the winter can be very valuable indeed.
300 watts will power a fridge, freezer, TV, laptop PC and lighting. 1000 watts will do that and heat water.

I have to revise my previous answer (which was basically no). I have just (belatedly) realised that the pond system here was once used to power a waterwheel on the farm. I know this because the top pond and the path of what we now know to be a 18th century leat were marked on the 1889 OS map, and if you follow the line from where the leat originally ended back to the stream then you go over a previously-unexplained 5ft drop, below which lies the remains of the tailrace leading out what must have been the wheel pit. The top pond, and the weir, which we now know was abandoned in the early 20th century and had already been "lost" by the 1940s, is probably even older than that.

The system could indeed be adapted to produce hydroelectric power, especially in the winter.

[adam2]

Even a small hydro electric system can be be very useful indeed, for less than about 500 watts, a battery based system might be best as the battery can supply peak loads far in excess of the turbine output.
If a water wheel was once used, then that suggests the available of at least a few kw.
The choice would be between a new water wheel and a modren small turbine. A water wheel is traditional and lowish technology, but probably less effecient than a modern turbine.

[UndercoverElephant]

Even a small hydro electric system can be be very useful indeed, for less than about 500 watts, a battery based system might be best as the battery can supply peak loads far in excess of the turbine output.
If a water wheel was once used, then that suggests the available of at least a few kw.
The choice would be between a new water wheel and a modren small turbine. A water wheel is traditional and lowish technology, but probably less effecient than a modern turbine.

It would have to be a modern turbine. The waterwheel would be a bit of a maintenance nightmare. Also the flow of the stream is considerably less than it once was, modern drainage systems having cut off maybe 50% of its natural flow.

Sadly we do not have much in the way of available funds to do this any time soon, but it is something to think about a few years down the line.

[clv101]

Did you see this:
https://youtu.be/PvgeSJKlNUs?si=sKASqeGUeqPzglPY

That's Part 2, Parts 1 & 3 also available.