“We are failing to create the listed buildings of tomorrow”

3. Support community-led housing, diversity of supply and levelling up

The successful Community Housing Fund should be reactivated. This will create accessible opportunities for communities to help themselves, by introducing a Self-Help Housing Programme and introduce a ‘Plot to Rent’ scheme.

4. Promote greener homes and more use of advanced manufacturing

The trailblazing role of custom and self-builders should be recognised for its use of advanced manufacturing and its ongoing investment in greener homes, to accelerate the delivery of the government’s ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ and ‘Net Zero Housing’ ambitions.

5. Support self-build housebuilding through the planning reforms

Any future planning reforms should ensure that they maximise opportunities for access to permissioned land, including making focused changes to the ‘Right to Build’ legislation, so it achieves its objectives.

6. Iron out any tax creases for building houses

The government should investigate any possible tax disadvantages between selfbuilding and other forms of house construction and identify specific actions to eradicate them.

Here at CB Homes, we welcome these recommendations and are pleased that finally a spotlight is being shone on a sector of the construction industry that is often neglected. We hope that the government can now implement these recommendations in a way that works for everyone, so they can make a real and lasting difference to the custom and self-build sector.

This will deliver both confidence in the industry and more diverse houses for people to live in.

Nathan Booth

Land, Legal and Finance, CB Homes cbhomes.co.uk

01829 730244