Saturday 8 January 2011

Self-build a dream home for £150,000 | Money | The Guardian

Self-build a dream home for £150,000 | Money | The Guardian

Ever dreamed of buying a plot of land and building your own grand design on it? The housing minister, Grant Shapps, says he is on your side and wants to make what can be a tortuous process significantly easier.

Shapps says he wants to simplify that "complex and bureaucratic planning system, regulatory burdens, and lack of access to land and finance" that lead many potential self-builders to give up. Self-builders are Britain's largest housebuilder, accounting for 20% of new homes each year, but Shapps said this week that various obstacles mean the UK has one of the lowest proportions of self-built homes in Europe.

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