Very interesting.

There are loads of really interesting self built kit houses these days where you can build really exciting homes for not huge sums of money in comparison to buying. These use the principles of the Segal homes.

Some are for sale, or have been for sale here:

The big issue is that there are very few building plots any more now that councils don't allow gardens to be built on (who uses a 140 foot garden in London?)

I enquired recently about planning for building your own home and the council no longer give out advice, their documents are incredibly un-user friendly.

If building is left to developers who sell tiny flats for 350k plus a pop, then property prices will keep going up no matter how many we build. Surely self building good, attractive, sustainable homes is something councils should be encouraging?

I'd rather a plot have 30 self developers on it than one developer. Can we encourage co-operative self building?