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Monthly Archives: April 2013
House Planning Help’s Free Podcasts About Self-Building…
House Planning Help – driven by Ben Adam-Smith – produce some very informative digests available as podcasts about particular issues surrounding self-build, ranging from interviews with experts (Mark Brinkley – @slopingsite on Twitter) to general overviews (Ecobuild) and issue-specific explorations … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Adam-Smith, custom build, House Planning Help, self-build
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Housing Associations see new partnerships as part of their future…
‘Socially minded, commercially minded – A report on tomorrow’s housing association’, authored by Denise Chevin on behalf of Genesis Housing Association and published by the Smith Institute was launched last week and is available to read here. The report is … Continue reading
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Tagged custom build, Denise Chevin, Genesis, housing associations, Smith Institute
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Another developer offers a Custom Build service
We are finding a number of developers are growing parts of their business model to include enabling custom build – a ‘hand-holding’, development management role designed to support self-builders and groups of self-builders engage with building their own homes in a way … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRC, Ash Sakula, Bloc, custom build, Custom Build Enabling, Design for Homes, developer, dreamplot, enabling, Igloo, MCCB, motivating collective custom build, Plot, SSoA, University of Sheffield
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Fideicomiso – Self-providing housing trusts in Argentina initiated by entrepreneurial Architects…
Fideicomiso are legal trusts that have developed in Argentina to challenge models of conventional speculative housing development[1]. They also occur in other Latin American countries, and are sometimes more fully called fideicomiso financieros – or financial trust.[2] In Buenos Aires … Continue reading
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Tagged Adamo-Faiden, custom build, Fideicomiso, RIBA, self-build, self-procure, self-provide, UKhousing, Venice Takeaway
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‘Thinking Custom Build’ Event at Ash Sakula, London – Wed 17th April, 9-11am
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NaSBA MORI poll results (in case you missed them…)
The results of a poll carried out by MORI on behalf of the National Self-Build Association (NaSBA) to establish the general demand for self-build can be found here. To quote a summary of the findings: “ The results show that … Continue reading
Mark Prisk visits LILAC (with Kevin McLoud)
See here for the article about Mark Prisk’s visit to the LILAC cohousing project last Friday, that acknowledges the challenges facing, and benefits of, building homes as a group. Notably, The Cohousing Network is starting work next month on creating a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohousing, housing, Kevin McLoud, LILAC, Mark Prisk, UK Cohousing Network
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A Right To Build – accessible versions online
We’ve had a few requests for signposting towards A Right To Build, the award-winning piece of research into self-build and the UK housing market, co-authored by Alistair Parvin and David Saxby at Architecture 00:/ and Cristina Cerulli and Tatjana Schneider … Continue reading
Motivating Collective Custom Build 