Self-build in the UK and Netherlands: mainstreaming self-development to address housing shortages?

Urban, Planning and Transport Research

D. Peel¹  L.B. Janssen-Jansen²  M.G. Lloyd³ 

[1] The Geddes Institute, University of Dundee;University of Amsterdam;University of Ulster;

关键词: land use planning;    self-build;    policy;    think tanks;    UK;    the Netherlands;   

DOI  :  10.1080/21650020.2014.987403

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper examines approaches to self or custom-build in the Netherlands and the UK to offer comparative insights into self- and custom-built housing contexts and cultures, and specifically, the relationships with local and strategic planning arrangements. The paper reviews arguments for self-build as a means to address housing shortages and examines the evidence of completions in practice. It positions the discussion in light of arguments that self-build can become a mainstream source of housing provision. The paper critically considers the role of think tanks in advocating housing policy solutions. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, the paper examines the work of the National Self-Build Association which has devised and implemented an action plan to promote the growth of self-build housing in the UK. Almere, which is located east of Amsterdam, is one of the case studies explored to inform thinking around self-build in the devolved UK. The conclusions tease out some of the implications for democratic and technocratic arguments around self-development and the right to design and build one’s home.

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