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This policy supports self-build and custom-build housing through several routes. On large developments of 500 or more homes, 2% of dwellings must be provided as serviced self-build plots unless the councils' register shows lower demand, with plots offered at a range of costs, sizes and types and an average density of 25 homes per hectare. Standalone schemes are also supported within settlement boundaries, on suitable sites next to larger settlements outside the Green Belt or Cotswolds National Landscape, or adjoining settlements where a local community need is evidenced.
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Policy HO.12
Self-Build and Custom-Build Housing
A. Overall Principles
Self-Build and Custom-Build housing will be supported in the following scenarios:
1. On New Settlements and Strategic Growth Locations in accordance with
Policy DS.2 and Part B of this Policy
2. On allocated sites in accordance with Policy DS.7
3. As a requirement to provide serviced plots as part of large housing sites in
accordance with Part B of this Policy
4. On unallocated sites in accordance with Part C of this Policy.
B. Required Provision on Large Housing Sites:
Within all large developments (500 or more dwellings):
• 2% of the dwelling must be provided as serviced self-build and custom-build
plots unless demand identified on the LPA Self Build and Custom
Housebuilding Register, or other relevant evidence, demonstrates that there is
a lower level of demand for plots.
• The allocated plots are to be provided at a range of costs, sizes, and types, in
accordance with the latest identified local need and should achieve an
average density of 25 dwellings per hectare.
Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding sites are intended to help meet a specific form
of identified housing need. Applications for schemes that provide for general market
housing on such sites will not be supported.
C. Unallocated Self-Build and Custom Build Housing Sites
Proposals solely for self-build and/or custom-build housing will be supported in
principle in the following locations subject to the following criteria:
1. As individual and small groups of plots within defined settlement boundaries.
2. On suitable sites outside of the Green Belt or Cotswolds National Landscape
and adjacent to the defined settlement boundaries of Main Urban Areas, Main
Service Centres and Local Service Centres (as defined by Policy DS.8 and
DS.12) to meet a district-wide need.
3. On suitable sites outside of or within the Green Belt or Cotswolds National
Landscape and adjacent to defined settlement boundaries to meet a local
need identified by the local community.
Developments should be small-scale and appropriate to the size and character of the
settlement where the site is located. The proposed plots should be provided at a
range of costs, sizes and types, in accordance with the latest identified local need.