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Two custom and self build study visits are running in September - one in the north and one in the south of England.
These visits offer a great opportunity to learn from others' hands-on experiences, find out how policy has facilitated practice and understand the benefits and shortcomings of different delivery routes.
We would recommend attending if you are:
Local politician or elected member
Local authority housing, planning, regeneration, development or estates officer
Mortgage lender or building societies
Developer, housebuilder or housing association
Established community housing group
Landowner
Housing and planning consultant or advisor
CUSTOM AND SELF BUILD CPD STUDY VISIT (South)
11 September, 9am-6pm
• Bristol • South Gloucestershire •
This guided visit by the Right to Build Task Force is an essential opportunity to understand how custom and self-build housing can be delivered. It shares completed schemes to showcase what can be achieved and the policy levers and framework that supports activity.
Find out how policy translates to practice and how sites are promoted, both within local government during planning and to the wider public upon sale. The trip takes in three distinct projects in urban and regional settings, with different routes to planning and delivery.
During the visit you will see examples of a mix of approaches to self-build, custom build and community led housing, including detached and terraced homes, with the opportunity to hear from stakeholders involved in the scheme and some residents.
PROJECTS VISITED:
We Can Make (Bristol) – www.wecanmake.org
An innovative, people-powered approach to back garden infill to provide small self or community built homes.
Water Lilies by Bright Green Futures (Bristol) – www.brightgreenfutures.co.uk
Custom build apartments and self-finish terraced houses in an urban brownfield opportunity in the heart of Bristol, with 33 homes.
Charfield Gardens (South Gloucestershire) – www.southglos.gov.uk
The first development to emerge as a result of South Gloucestershire Council’s percentage policy for custom and self-build. Houses are designed and commissioned by individual self-builders, including a mix of young people and downsizers on smaller plots.
£100pp/£45pp (NaCSBA members)/£25 discounted
CUSTOM AND SELF BUILD CPD STUDY VISIT (North)
26 September, 9am-6pm
• Leeds • York •
This guided visit by the Right to Build Task Force is an essential opportunity to understand how custom and self-build housing can be delivered. It shares completed schemes to showcase what can be achieved and the policy levers and framework that supports activity.
Find out how policy translates to practice and how sites are promoted, both within local government during planning and to the wider public upon sale. The trip takes in three distinct projects in urban and regional settings, with different routes to planning and delivery.
During the visit you will see examples of a mix of approaches to self-build, custom build and community led housing, including detached and terraced homes, with the opportunity to hear from stakeholders involved in the scheme and some residents.
PROJECTS VISITED:
ChaCo Chapeltown Cohousing (Leeds) – www.chapeltowncohousing.org.uk
A completed community of 33 affordable community led custom and self-build homes.
Frontline Self-build (Leeds)
A historical self-build street built by 12 unemployed Afro-Caribbean men and their families in the 1990s, demonstrating the process and how a community evolves.
Yorspace and Lowfield Green Plots (York)
Six self-build serviced plots and a separate community cohousing development built on a larger mixed development, facilitated by City of York Council.
£100pp/£45pp (NaCSBA members)/£25 discounted