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Bid to build 'unique' canal-side home
Western Daily Press
|October 22, 2025
A BATH family are hoping to get planning permission to build their own "unique" home by the Kennet & Avon Canal after living off-grid on a barge for 16 years.
On Wednesday, Bath and North East Somerset Council’s planning committee are set to decide a planning application described by the applicants as “an unusual site and an unusual proposal.”
It would see a four-bedroom family home built next to the towpath near the Folly Footbridge. Construction materials would be transported to the building site by boat.
All of the house's electricity would be generated by its own off-grid renewable energy and the property would also have its own water source, the planning application states.
This story is from the October 22, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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