Self-build in the UK and Netherlands: mainstreaming self-development to address housing shortages?
This paper examines approaches to self or custom-build in the Netherlands and the UK to offer comparative insights into self- and custom-built housing contexts and cultures, and specifically, the relationships with local and strategic planning arrangements. The paper reviews arguments for self-build as a means to address housing shortages and examines the evidence of completions in practice. It positions the discussion in light of arguments that self-build can become a mainstream source of housing provision. The paper critically considers the role of think tanks in advocating housing policy solutions. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, the paper examines the work of the National Self-Build Association which has devised and implemented an action plan to promote the growth of self-build housing in the UK. Almere, which is located east of Amsterdam, is one of the case studies explored to inform thinking around self-build in the devolved UK. The conclusions tease out some of the implications for democratic and technocratic arguments around self-development and the right to design and build one’s home.
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| Format: | Article/Letter to editor biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | land use planning, policy, self-build, the Netherlands, think tanks, |
| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/self-build-in-the-uk-and-netherlands-mainstreaming-self-developme |
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