Self-build and custom housebuilding

The government is keen to promote self-build and custom housebuilding as a way of increasing the overall number of homes and to encourage the growth of the custom build sector.

The Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 requires us to keep a register of people seeking to buy land to build a home themselves. We then have to consider the information on the register in using our planning functions.

Personal details included on the register will not be made public; however headline data can be extracted from it and published. This could include for example; overall numbers of registered entries for different types of categories, geographical areas of interest and the types of housing wanted.

Join the self-build and custom house building register

As at November 30, 2022 we have 247 individuals and 0 groups or associations of individuals on the Charnwood Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Register.

Charnwood Borough Council has granted 125 suitable development permissions with potential for Self-Build and/or Custom Housebuilding. The figures are distributed across the Base Periods as follows:

Base Period	Individuals on the Register	Suitable development permissions
Period 1 (up to 30/10/2016)	4	Not recorded
Period 2 (up to 30/10/2017)	35	27
Period 3 (up to 30/10/2018)	38	25
Period 4 (up to 30/10/2019)	46	22
Period 5 (up to 30/10/2020)	38	20
Period 6 (up to 30/10/2021)	53	11
Period 7 (from 30/10/2022)	33	20
Total	247	125