The Right to Build has the potential to change the face of the self and custom build industry by giving a huge boost to the number of projects that are completed each year.

Under the Right to Build, all councils in England must maintain a register of individuals and groups who want to build their own homes – and crucially they must permission enough viable plots to meet the demand measured on these lists.

This represents both a huge opportunity and a sizable risk: if councils’ registers don’t show significant interest, then they may be able to justifiably argue that there’s very little demand for self build in their areas.

Currently, very few councils are proactively marketing their Right to Build registers, so it’s up to us as an industry to promote them and ensure that local authorities have to take self and custom build seriously.

The time to act is now!

I would urge you to join us in raising the profile of the registers – after all, every individual who gets access to a plot means more potential leads for the products and services you offer!

As industry leaders, you hold the key to raising awareness of the Right to Build. So please include a prominent story on your websites and to regularly push the message out to your email database. Build It has also prepared some standard-sized MPU and Leaderboard artwork for you to integrate into your website (see below).

Our Complete Guide to the Right to Build is a comprehensive one-stop advice hub for people interested in signing up to the registers – please feel free to link through to it as a resource for your clients at www.self-build.co.uk/right-to-build

Complete Guide to the Right to Build

The best place for people to find their local register is NaCSBA’s Right to Build Portal, so it’s important to push people through to the website at www.righttobuildportal.org

Find your local Right to Build register online

Downloadable Right to Build Artwork

Right to Build MPU Advert
Download MPU (300 x 250 pixels)

Right to Build Leaderboard Advert
Download Leaderboard (728 x 90 pixels)

Please link these banners through to www.righttobuildportal.org

Thanks for helping us support the Right to Build!

Chris & The Build It team

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