NaCSBA’s 2024/25 Custom & Self Build Market Report is now available and has been sent out to all Members.
Our third Annual Market Report looks back at 2024 and forward to 2025. Our review of government policy reflects the big change to a Labour government whose headline signals are well received by the sector, namely an ambitious target to build 1.5 million homes during this Parliament and to tackle the serious shortcomings of our planning system. We look at the Right to Build legislation – the primary legislative initiative to promote the growth of custom and self build, identifying weaknesses and the changes needed to make it effective.
Planning has been highlighted by NaCSBA as the biggest constraint on the sector’s growth many times so we devote a significant part of this Report to the subject.
We include two features on Planning Appeals. Andy Moger reviews a number of detailed case studies of custom and self build appeals and Mary Elkington offers a detailed analysis of the data from recent appeals to learn lessons. Sally Tagg provides a case study of one of the flagship approaches to custom and self build on multi-plot sites – percentage policies.
Our messages that custom and self build is welcomed by the population at large are reinforced by two new pieces of Survey work that we report here of public attitudes towards CSB We also take a deep dive into the results of the Annual NSBRC-NaCSBA Survey of self builders, and analyse the results of NaCSBA’s Business Confidence Survey.
