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- What is a serviced plot? It’s exactly what it sounds like — a plot that’s ready to build on. That means it already has the utility connections – water, gas, electricity and mains sewage, high-speed broadband and telephone – as well as access from the highway.
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- Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding
- Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Registers
- Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Land Duties
- Exemptions from The 2015 Act Duties
- Cost Recovery
What is self-build and custom housebuilding?
Self-build and custom housebuilding covers a wide spectrum, from projects where individuals are involved in building or managing the construction of their home from beginning to end, to projects where individuals commission their home, making key design and layout decisions, but the home is built ready for occupation (‘turnkey’). The Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended by the Housing and Planning Act 2016)provides a legal definition of self-build and custom housebuilding....
What are the benefits of self-build and custom housebuilding?
Self-build or custom build helps to diversify the housing market and increase consumer choice. Self-build and custom housebuilders choose the design and layout of their home, and can be innovative in both its design and construction Paragraph: 16a Reference ID: 57-016a-20210208 Revision date: 08 02 2021
Who does the requirement to keep a self-build and custom housebuilding register and the duty to have regard to the register fall to?
Responsibility for keeping a self-build and custom housebuilding register falls to “relevant authorities” as set out in section 1 of the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended by the Housing and Planning Act 2016), and includes: 1. district councils; 2. county councils in England so far as they are councils for an area for which there are no district councils; 3. London borough councils; 4. the Common Council of the City of London; 5. the Council of the Isles of Scilly; 6. t...
Can relevant authorities hold a joint register?
Authorities can choose to work together to publicise and promote their registers and have a single application form provided it is clear which authority the application is being made to. However, under the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 as amended by the Housing and Planning Act 2016each relevant authority must keep and publicise a register. An authority can also choose to work with a private sector supplier to maintain the register provided the relevant authority holds and publ...
Why must relevant authorities keep a self-build and custom housebuilding register?
Paragraph removed Paragraph: 002 Reference ID: 57-002-20210508 Revision date: 08 02 2021 See previous version
This section provides information on the two duties in the 2015 Act (as amended by the Housing and Planning Act 2016) which are concerned with increasing the availability of land for self-build and custom housebuilding. These duties are the ‘duty to grant planning permission etc’ and the ‘duty as regards registers’.
Can authorities become exempt from the ‘duty as regards registers’?
No. Authorities must have regard to their register when carrying out their planning, housing, land disposal and regeneration functions. There is no exemption from this duty. Paragraph: 029 Reference ID: 57-029-20210208 Revision date: 08 02 2021 See previous version
When can a relevant authority apply for an exemption to the ‘duty to grant planning permission etc’?
A relevant authority may make an application for an exemption if for any base period (see the section on what having a ‘duty to grant planning permission etc’ means) the demand for self-build and custom housebuilding is greater than 20% of the land identified by that relevant authority as being available for future housing. As relevant authorities have 3 years in which to permission sufficient land to match demand, demand should be assessed over 3 base periods. For this purpose demand is the...
If demand for self-build and custom housebuilding in an area is significantly more than 20% of the identified land for housing would the relevant authority be automatically exempt from the ‘duty to...
No. The first time that a relevant authority determines that the demand on their register is greater than 20% of its future deliverable housing supply, that authority may apply to the Secretary of State for an exemption. The authority is assumed to not be exempt until the Secretary of State has considered the application and written to the relevant authority informing them of the outcome of their application. When deciding whether to grant an exemption, in order to ensure that an exemption is...
Can relevant authorities charge fees to those who apply to be entered on or remain on their register?
Relevant authorities can only set fees on a cost recovery basis. Any fees charged must therefore be proportionate, reflect genuine costs incurred, should not act as a deterrent for people to be entered on or remain on the register and should not be viewed as a mechanism to manage demand. Authorities are advised to provide a transparent rationale for why they are charging, and how charges have been arrived at, and to review this to ensure costs remain proportionate and fair. To recover their c...
Can an exempt authority charge a fee?
Exemption only applies to specific base periods so relevant authorities may recover their costs for complying with the ‘duty to grant planning permission etc’ to those who are entered onto the register in a base period which is not exempt even where that authority may be exempt for other base periods. Authorities cannot apply for an exemption from the duty to hold a register nor to have regard to those on the register when carrying out their planning, housing, land disposal and regeneration f...
Can relevant authorities refuse entry on the register to an individual or association of individuals who does not pay the fee?
One of the eligibility requirements for entry on a self-build and custom housebuilding register is payment of any fee which is required by the authority in relation to the register. Therefore relevant authorities are entitled to refuse an individual or association of individuals entry to their register until they have paid any entry fee set by the authority. Relevant authorities are also entitled to remove an individual or association of individuals from their register in a subsequent base pe...
Jun 14, 2023 · What Are Serviced Plots? A serviced plot is pretty much what it says on the tin. They are plots of land where the key infrastructure, namely utility connections (gas, electricity, water etc) and access from the highway, are taken care of by an enabling developer.
Serviced Plots 3.10 The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (9) (4), defines a serviced plot of land as (a) has access to a public highway and has connections for electricity, water and waste...
A serviced plot is a plot of land which either has access to a public highway and connections for electricity, water and waste water; or where in the opinion of the Local Planning...
Illustrated definition of Box and Whisker Plot: A special type of diagram showing Quartiles 1, 2 and 3 (where the data can be split into quarters) in a box, with...
What is a serviced Plot? The Serviced Plot is the parcel of land available for you to buy and custom build your home. In all cases, access to the plot has been laid and available utilities laid to the boundary of the plot.
