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Balancing the Help to Buy custom build conundrum
Ed's Blog 30 Oct 2017
In her catastrophe-laden speech at the culmination of the Conservative Party Conference, Theresa May announced further support for Help to Buy, together with a commitment to support affordable social housing. […]
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Custom Build and the system change needed in UK housing
Guest Blog 23 Oct 2017
I attended my first meeting of NaCSBA’s Custom Build Group last week, and what a lovely bunch of intelligent pioneering people they were, focusing on growing the sector and the […]
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Should planning be reactive or proactive with regards to the Right To Build Register?
Guest Blog 26 Sep 2017
This month the first Right To Build Task Force Expo took place to an enthusiastic audience with gold-plated endorsement from Housing and Planning Minister Alok Sharma. And the Right To […]
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Swan’s Geoff Pearce shares the benefits of offsite modular and its potential for custom homes
Guest Blog 25 Sep 2017
Geoff Pearce, Executive Director of Regeneration and Development at Swan Housing Association, explains how Swan is accelerating the delivery of new homes by using innovative modern methods of construction. And […]
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Councils need to fund infrastructure for custom build on their own land
Ed's Blog 28 Aug 2017
One of the foibles of any emerging sector is that it can be hard to pin down and pigeonhole, and custom build is no different. Since we launched Custom Build […]
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Chris Brown looks at the blossoming community-led housing movement and its benefits
Guest Blog 28 Aug 2017
Community-led housing, and especially custom build is growing fast in the UK from a very low base. This is in comparison to a number of continental European countries where it […]
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Build-Zone’s Paul Kempton on why reputable insurance brokers are vital for sector growth
Guest Blog 25 Jul 2017Promoted
Paul Kempton, Managing Director of the Sennocke Group, owner of Build-Zone, gives us his insight into the hurdles faced by the custom build sector. And not least of these is […]
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Why Building Regulations need to reflect innovation in construction
Ed's BlogUncategorized 25 Jul 2017
Digital technology has driven a phenomenal pace of change in the last few decades. In fact, since 1990 we’ve gone from a few million internet users, roughly 0.05% of the […]
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Communication is a significant barrier to custom build growth says Chris Brown
Guest Blog 28 Jun 2017
The custom build industry has a problem – communication. We’re trying to sell the simple delivery of dream homes to customers who have no knowledge of our existence. We are […]
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Community-led housing offers lessons for us all
Ed's BlogUncategorized 27 Jun 2017
Disrupting a dominant system like the housing supply market is painful and slow. And while custom build is struggling to live up to its potential, it doesn’t mean it’s a […]
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