FOI request (FOIR-679595373)

Self-build and custom housebuilding

Requested Fri 17 January 2025
Responded Tue 25 February 2025

Can you please provide the following data in line with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

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 30th October 2023. Where your local authority has divided the register into two parts, please provide the total number for both parts of the register?

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 31st October 2022 and 30th October 2023. Please provide number of permissions and total number of dwellings.

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 31st October 2022 and 30th October 2023. Please provide number of applications and total number of dwellings subject to claim applications./p>

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).

Response

1. There are 84 individuals on the self build register, all of whom joined the register prior to the changes made to the register in 2019. There have been no more entries since then and the number remains at 84.

2. This information is publicly available on our website:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/searching/

3. Hastings Borough Council is not a CIL authority.

4. Zero. The extant Local Plan was adopted in 2015. A new Plan is in production.