PLOTLAND DEVELOPMENTS exist in many forms: virtuously green, asbestos rich, “sustainably” recycled, joyously untutored, madly ad hoc, inventive (former rolling stock, often from Cohens of Kettering, gliders that no longer fly, boats that no longer float). Many of the earliest were converted from chicken huts — which prompted W H Colt to move into bodge-it-yourself timber houses. They are self-expressive, optimistic in the face of sometimes desperate poverty.
They exist in many places: the coast near Grimsby, on the plain near Andover, the Gower peninsular, Sheppey,
