Self-build & Custom Housebuilding Act

ProAktive www.selfbuildonline.co.uk Self-build & Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 sees the self-build and custom housebuilding act come into place. The new legislation will allow room for alternatives to traditional housing with more choice and variety for innovational housing projects. 250,000 homes aimed to be built each year over the next 25 years. However, less than half was delivered last year. (2013-2014*) New measures have delivered the first garden city for 100 years with 15,000 new homes. Making it Needless building standards are now easier . less REJECTED. & expensive to build. How will right to build work? Councils havea legal duty to provide land at market value & will have to be The new policy has cross-party support. serviced' Any money the council make through the sale of land will be used to eg water $ electricity connections. reinvest in new sites. Self builders must still go through the planning process to get permission to build on land. 11 vanguard councils are granted 550,000 as part of the policy legislation. They will be the first to access the custom build fund worth E150 m which aims to release (0,000 plots. Cherwell District Council. €90,000 received & will deliver 2,000 South Cambridgeshire District Council. custom-build homes over the next (0 years. Teignbridge District Council. Exmoor and Dartmoor National Park Authorities. €28,000 to explore how local self builders can be Shropshire Council. guided while protecting the countryside. Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council. West Lindsey Pendle District Council. Borough Council. Sheffield City South Norfolk Council. District Council. Stoke-on-Trent 72 hectares City Council. of land will be brought forward for local self builders in this area. Self building always carries risks of injury and damage to property. If you are considering taking on a self build project under the new self build and custom housebuilding act be sure to take out specialist self build insurance. Doncaster: 01302 346 831 | Follow us: y f O ProAktive www.selfbuildonline.co.uk