An analysis of self‐build and custom housebuilding in the south west of England.

Gingell, Annie Hamilton and Shahab, Sina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3788-2564 2021. An analysis of self‐build and custom housebuilding in the south west of England. Urban Science 5 (1) , 9. 10.3390/urbansci5010009

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Abstract

This paper seeks to evaluate how successful national policy interventions have been at addressing land barriers to self-build and custom housebuilding when applied by Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) across the South West of England. A longitudinal triangulated mixed method approach was undertaken to comprehensively interrogate the research objective. This comprised submitting a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to each LPA within the study area; an assessment of the most recently produced Strategic Housing Market Assessments (SHMAs); deriving alternative demand estimates using national data as a proxy; and alternate estimates of supply calculated using BuildStore and The Land Bank Partnership plot search websites. The findings of the study revealed that LPA Registers can only be viewed as a minimum assessment of demand for self-build and custom housebuilding and the effectiveness of LPAs in classifying suitable development permissions for self-build and custom housebuilding was highly dependent on the mechanisms used to identify permissions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2413-8851
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 January 2021
Date of Acceptance:	12 January 2021
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 14:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/137770

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