13,000 people build their own homes in a year - Telegraph

13,000 people build their own homes in a year - Telegraph

Television shows such as Grand Designs suggest that the only way to succeed in such a task is to possess limitless quantities of cash or an iron clad will to persevere, preferably both.

Perhaps surprisingly then, for the first time in the modern era those designing their own home have become Britain’s biggest group of housebuilders.