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Space race
Sally and Tom Marlow have made the most of their new Clapham home with a full renovation and several extensions; Alexandra Pratt speaks to them about their space mission
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Conservative MP Richard Bacon has spent many years banging the drum for self-build in Parliament and at countless events around the country. He’s acutely aware of just how far the UK continues to lag behind countries like Germany, where a form of self-build is virtually the norm for most homeowners.
However Bacon seems to have lost his sizzle, and is laying the blame at councils’ doors for the sluggish progress since the 2016 Housing Act. He says that “too many local authorities are yet to fully engage with the benefi ts, and their resources are often too stretched. s a result, ‘right to build registers’ aren’t being promoted, he says, despite councils’ obligation to do so.
There might be a cultural issue; Germany seems to historically have been keener to embrace the potential to come together as small collectives (‘Baugruppen’) to self-build homes in a way that borrows and benefi ts from each others skills. The basic benefi t being that you don’t need to go it alone, which probably broadens self-build to a much wider section of the population. But is the reason the UK hasn’t embraced this sharing approach partly because it’s not been made available?
If Richard Bacon really wants change, he’s going to have to persuade Rishi Sunak to invest on an unprecedented scale in councils to give them the manpower and money they need, as well as producing specifi c self-build targets.
JAMES PARKER
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