SLP KDBH Extracts - Flipbook - Page 62
Policy P4D – Meeting Housing Needs - Self and Custom
Housebuilding
1.
The Council will require developers of allocated sites to make a contribution to Self
and Custom Build Housing on residential sites of 100 units or more. Contributions
will be expected to be made in the form of 5% of open market dwellings in the form of
Self and Custom Build Plots on each development site, but will take into account:
i.
Site size;
ii.
Accessibility to local services and facilities and access to public transport;
iii.
The economics of provision, including particular costs that may threaten the
viability of the site;
iv.
Whether the provision of self and custom build plots would prejudice the
realisation of other planning objectives that need to be given priority in the
development of the site;
v.
The need to secure a range of house types and sizes in the locality in helping
to achieve socially balanced and mixed communities; and
vi.
The need to achieve a successful and functional housing development.
2.
The Council expects these plots to be offered for sale with outline planning
permission, fully serviced to the boundary and unconstrained access to the highway
for a period of 12 months to those Registered on Solihull’s Self and Custom Build
Housing Register. The value of the plots will be subject to an independent valuation
by a Registered Surveyor.
3.
Further detail and guidance for delivery of Policy P4D will be set out in the ‘Meeting
Housing Needs’ Supplementary Planning Document.
Justification
192.
The Council is justified in making provision for self and custom build housing in order to
comply with the Self and Custom Housebuilding Act, the Housing and Planning Act, National
Planning Policy Guidance and the needs on the self-build register.
193.
The Housing and Planning Act 2016 took forward the requirements of the Self-build and
Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 further by introducing a ‘Right to Build’. This requires local
planning authorities to support custom and self-builders registered in their area in identifying
enough suitable plots of land to build or commission their own home to meet local demand
through their Local Plan.
194.
In accordance with the Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 and the Housing and
Planning Act 2016 the Government released Ministerial Regulations on 31 October 2016.
These Regulations enable the Council to split the Register into two parts. Part 1 of the
Register is for those who potentially meet Local Connection Criteria and Assessment of
Financial Resource. Applicants who meet these qualifying criteria will have the ‘Right to
Build’ and Policy 4D will create suitable plots of land to build or commission their own home.
Part 2 of the Register is for all other applicants. The Council does not have a legal obligation
to identify enough suitable plots of land for those on this part 2 of the Register, however it
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