Councils Increasingly Backing Self-Build Housing Schemes

More than half of local planning authorities across England have made concrete moves to deliver local plan policies which back the delivery of custom and self-build housing. Research by the Right to Build Taskforce (RBT) found 58% of planning authorities either had in place or were bringing on such policies, up from barely a quarter (24%) in 2015. But the RTB also found that few councils offered “the necessary meaningful support [for custom and self-build] within the spirit of legislation and government policy” and one in three adopted plans were failing to make any provision for such schemes. Read more on the Housing Today website.

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