Decision details

To review the Self and Custom Build Housing Action Plan and the Council’s next steps in relation to the approach to planning for self and custom build housing.

The Council adopted its Self and Custom House Building Action Plan in 2018. The Action Plan set out actions to support the Council’s objective to ‘positively influence or help secure development opportunities where we can support individuals or organisations in our local communities to deliver high quality self-build or custom-build homes to meet demand in the Borough’.   In the action plan the Council committed to review the progress of the actions to ensure that progress is being made in meeting the objective.

A review of the action plan has been undertaken to assess the progress made to date in supporting the delivery of self and custom build homes and to establish  whether the original actions identified are proving successful in supporting the Council’s objectives.  In particular, the review considers what further steps the Council can take in supporting the delivery of self and custom build homes to facilitate delivery.

RESOLVED that the Executive:

(a)  notes the progress made in supporting the delivery of self and custom build homes in the Borough; and

(b)  approves the implementation of the future actions set out in the Action Plan Review attached at Appendix A to the report, subject to inclusion of a further action to undertake further engagement to promote the opportunity for self-build and custom housebuilding within the Borough and encourage interested individuals and organisations to register their interest.