Welcome to Maribel Eco Systems

From George Bell. (Maribel is my wife!)

This site is divided into 2 main sections.

1.    The Home page We used to have all the various products and service I was marketing.  We have relocated from Fujairah in the UAE to Norfolk, UK. Hoping to start Maribel Eco Systems as a Company here. After nearly 40 years in the United Arab Emirates I have a lot of interest there, but the focus will gradually change to where we live now. IT'S A LOT COLDER! I have given up on trying to start a business now - after nearly five years failing to climb over all the blocks in the way.

I wanted to make Bio-diesel.  The regulations and all the restrictions and safety and the NIMBY attitudes have disuaded me, and it would have cost an awful lot of money to start. I next looked at a DIY Horse Livery service but a very negative response from the Planners has made me aware just how many obstacles are put in the way of anyone wanting to do almost anything in UK. I considered a fishing lake, but the cost of excavations and the need to collect fees 365 days a year at anytimes from early morning to late evening put me off that.  The Highways said I could not use a small field for caravans because of access problems. I now have about 12 chickens. This seems to be all I can do without falling foul of endless rules, costs, permits, licenses, etc. At least we are saving a bit on eggs. I expect there is some tax to pay on this.  Most recent ventures to have been turned down have been a Solar Farm,  (Government cut the feed-in-tariff, so the finance disappeared) and the caravan site I wanted to start up on my land on a tourist route to the Norfolk Broads, was "unsuitable". No other reason.

If it exists, I shall have to find something that does not contravene anyone's sensibilities or rules. I am still looking. I really do not want to sit here and watch my hard earned saving simply disappear and so condemn us to a life of struggling on an inadequate pension. Our only remaining hope is to build a new home on a plot we have so we can move and let the tiny semi, in which we now live.  8 years on and this has been rejected, - even the appeal was rejected, so it leaves me with very few options left. Anyone want to make a serious offer for 20 acres of grade 3 farmland in Norfolk. Current price of agricultural land is about £10,000. per acre.  Next door to a proposed Eco Town.