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Living on the Road, Waterways or Off-grid in the UK
A practical guide to life outside conventional housing in the UK.
Covering travellers, vanlifers, boat dwellers, off-grid land living, planning reality, police powers, addresses, driving laws, gatherings, etiquette, lingo and the legal grey areas that shape life on the road, on the water and on land.
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About the book
Living on the Road, Waterways or Off-grid in the UK is a practical guide for people living, or considering living, outside conventional housing systems.
It looks at the realities faced by travellers, vanlifers, vehicle dwellers, boat dwellers, off-grid landowners and smallholders, with a focus on the UK legal and practical landscape.
The book covers the everyday issues that shape this way of life – addresses, parking, mooring, planning, police powers, vehicle law, gatherings, etiquette, lingo and survival in legal grey areas.
It is written from lived experience, but with careful attention to the systems that affect anyone trying to live differently on the road, on the water or on land.
“Stay safe, stay well, fuck the system!”
Dicky Dread
Inside the book
About the author
Dicky Dread writes from a life lived at the edges of the systems he critiques.
Alongside his academic work as Richard Leach, he has spent decades immersed in traveller culture, festivals, off-grid living and the informal economies that sustain them.
His work brings together practical guidance, lived experience, law, autonomy, community and the realities of trying to build a freer life outside conventional structures.
Living on the Road, Waterways or Off-grid in the UK continues that work as a grounded guide to mobile, water-based and land-based alternative living.