Consultation outcome

Right to Build: supporting custom and self build

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Published: 23 October 2014
• Last updated: 27 March 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

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Right to Build: supporting custom and self build: government response to consultation

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Detail of outcome

This document summarises responses to the consultation and sets out the next steps for the Right to Build.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views about the best way of constructing the Right to Build, giving custom builders a right to a plot from councils.

This consultation ran from
23 October 2014 to 11:45pm on 18 December 2014

Consultation description

The government announced at Budget 2014 that it will consult on creating a new ‘Right to Build’, giving custom builders a right to a plot from councils.

The Right to Build is an extension of the government’s planning reforms. However, given the difficulty custom builders often have finding suitable land, we want to go further by giving prospective local custom builders the right to a suitable plot of land to build a new home with the help of their local planning authority.

In September 2014 the government announced that 11 local authorities would become Right to Build ‘vanguards’. This will involve local planning authorities operating the Right to Build model on a voluntary basis to test how it will work in practice.

This consultation meets the government’s commitment, and seeks views from local planning authorities, the custom build sector and prospective custom builders themselves about the best way of constructing such a Right.

Documents

Right to Build: supporting custom and self build: consultation

Ref: ISBN 9781409843610

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Published 23 October 2014
Last updated 27 March 2015 + show all updates

1. 27 March 2015

   Added government response.

2. 23 October 2014

   First published.