Purpose

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.

Decision

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.