Two mansions - of completely different styles - are to be built in the Lancashire countryside after being allowed under a rare planning law.

Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides. They can also catch fish from their front porch!

An apartment block on stilts is ... Fishponds. Plans have been submitted to the city council by housing association United Communities for the affordable LaunchPad homes to help young people ...

The replacement house would use the ground level only for car storage, with living accommodation raised above it on columns. A consultation on the plan is open until 1 February. Mr Bell's planning ...

The 1,062 square foot house is built on stilts and is accessed by a tram. It features an open floor plan with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and an office, as well as two decks, one with built-in ...

Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their contents in astonishing detail. Archaeologists say the excavations ...