Useful links
Some useful sources of independent advice
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Useful Selfbuild Information
- Channel 4 Grand Designs – the TV series with presenter Kevin McCloud following eight sets of people as they built their own homes.
- Developing Skills – self build courses in association with Homebuilding and Renovation Magazine.
- Ebuild – online resource for self-builders, with discussion and events forums.
- Forever Green – run by architect Rob Hillier, who specialises in environmentally friendly building and working with community self build groups.
- Green building store – environmentally sensitive building products from Environmental Construction Products Ltd of Meltham, Yorkshire.
- National Homebuilding and Renovating Show – register online for tickets.
- Self Build ABC – comprehensive resource on self build houses, offering details on building plots for sale, purchasing land through land agents, planning and constructing a self build home.
- self-builder.com – self build finance and insurance, plus useful message board.
Self Build Groups:
- Ashley Vale Action Group – self build group in inner city Bristol.
- BADSBA – Bath and District Self Build Association.
- Community Self Build Agency – UK organisation promoting self build.
- Cornwall Sustainable Building Trust – promotes sustainable building throughout the peninsula.
- BIY – based in Cornwall, Build It Yourself provides environmental self build training and advice.
- Leeds Action to Create Homes – LATCH is a self-help housing charity that runs projects working with homeless people and volunteers in Leeds.
- Radical Routes – group dedicated to setting up member housing co-operatives.
