Definitions
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- adjective of a house Supplied in
kit form, forconstruction by theowner
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Examples
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"Although the idea of self-build is potentially quite hippyish, it's relatively unsustainable," Heathcote says.
BBC News - Home 2011
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But Orme and other self-build experts say other policies contradict this support: "When it outlawed 'garden-grabbing', the government said it was stopping developers building blocks of flats on little old ladies 'back gardens," he says.
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Government attacked for strangling the self-build homes movement
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The government's planning and housing policies are a "nimbys 'charter" set to "strangle" the self-build sector, says one of Britain's self-build experts.
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"We want to see a self-build movement spread across the country and particularly come to the rescue in rural areas," says Shapps.
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The 1960s saw, however, a heady boom in self-build, initiated by all those alternative lifestyle movements.
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The latter have included the self-build housing programmes initiated by architects like Walter Segal, the Swiss-born British architect who developed a system of prefabricated timber houses built by local people to his simple, elegant designs.
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Mortgage intelligence service Moneyfacts says there were 35 self-build lenders in pre-credit-crunch early 2007, and 21 today, a modest fall compared with some other niche mortgage sectors.
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The alternative to Segal's style of self-build was the kind of free-spirited hippy homes that sprung up in self-consciously alternative communities, notably in California.
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Some analysts fear that increasing wariness about credit levels will further inhibit lenders from serving the self-build sector, regarded by mainstream finance houses as too complicated.
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