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Self-build and custom housebuilding

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Can you please provide the following data;

1. The total number of individuals and associations of individuals on your local authority’s statutory Self Build and Custom Housebuilding Register, as defined under the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended), as at 30 October 2023. Where your local authority has divided the register into two parts, please provide the total number for both parts of the register.
The information can be found in the publicly available ‘Self-build and custom housebuilding topic paper’ on our website here: https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/sites/wokingham/files/2024-09/Self%20and%20Custom%20Build%20Topic%20Paper%20-%20v%20Final.pdf

2. The total number of planning permissions (including permissions in principle) your local authority has granted for self-build and custom housebuilding under Section 2A(2) of the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended), between 31 October 2022 and 30 October 2023. Please provide number of permissions and total number of dwellings.
The information can be found in the publicly available ‘Self-build and custom housebuilding topic paper’ on our website here: https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/sites/wokingham/files/2024-09/Self%20and%20Custom%20Build%20Topic%20Paper%20-%20v%20Final.pdf

3. Where your local authority is a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging authority, the number of self-build housing exemption claim applications (CIL Form 7 part 1: Self Build Exemption claim) the authority has received between 31 October 2022 and 30 October 2023. Please provide number of applications and total number of dwellings subject to claim applications.
32 Application approved for 32 dwellings.

4. The total number of dwellings for self-build and custom housebuilding, as defined under the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended), expected to be delivered as a result of site allocations or policies seeking a percentage of such forms of housebuilding on housing sites in an adopted development plan for the local authority area (please provide development plan period). Where your local authority covers more than one area for purposes of planning, please provide data for each area.
In total 150 self and custom build plots are proposed for allocation on the three largest development sites identified in the LPU.

Supply of self and custom build plots
SS11, Arborfield Green SDL, 25 plots
SS12, South Wokingham SDL Extension (Land South of Waterloo Road), 25 plots
SS13, Loddon Valley Garden Village SDL, 100 plots
Total: 150 plots

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