An exciting new initiative for Stourbridge enabling community participation in the acquisition of land for the development of sustainable, affordable, inspiring homes designed and built by the people who will live in them.


If we can form a community that consists of Carpenters, plumbers and electricians as well as solicitors, architects and surveyors we will be able to build beautiful ecologically, physically, environmentally and socially sustainable homes for a fraction of the cost of buying an off the shelf "baked bean tin" house

From the Guardian...



"Community Right to Build will offer local groups the chance to give the green light to new developments without specific planning applications, which "could open the door to a whole new generation of self-builders".
"Building your own home should not be the preserve of a privileged few," said (housing minister Grant) Shapps "I want to break down the barriers that many aspiring self-builders often come up against, and I have asked experts at the National Self Build Association to work with us to develop an action plan to make it easier for people to build their own homes, whether on their own or as part of a community effort to build a whole new neighbourhood." Miles Brignall, Self Build a dream home for £150,000, The Guardian (2011)


http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jan/08/self-build-dream-home