written by guest contributor Ellie HayesIt’s no secret that home ownership is an increasingly challenging goal for many – particularly for younger generations. House prices have soared while wages have remained largely stagnant, and many experts are predicting another recession in the wake of the...
We started on site at our inaugural custom build development, Blenheim Grove, in March of 2018. Our MD Gus has made little video diaries throughout the process, and we’re continually updating as the build moves along (at an increasingly...
Our MD Gus noticed this twitter thread a couple of weeks ago which brought up interesting conversations around planning and our collective need to deliver housing.
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Our custom build homes at Blenheim Grove are coming out of the ground, and what better way to engage with the community that these homes will be a part of than collaborating with local artists?
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If you weren’t aware, 31st October was an important day in the Custom Build and Self-build industry, especially in terms of planning permission changes.
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Golden Brick is a term that the building industry uses for the point at which a building becomes residential.
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“Residential use on that site? …Not a chance”, chuckled the planning officer rather cruelly after my girlfriend and I had bought an unloved, overgrown and dilapidated terrace of garages at auction in 2004.
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If you are an organisation looking into delivering custom and self build housing through community-led projects, the Right to Build Task Force is offering advice for 5 organisations, free of charge.
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There are a lot of interesting things happening in the Netherlands, including custom build in the city of Almere, where there are plans to turn the housing market on its head by challenging the status quo of volume house-builders controlling the city’s provision of...
There’s unanimous support for the idea that we are in a housing crisis. There also seems to be unanimous support for the solution – to build more homes.
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