Useful links
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Some useful sources of independent advice
National Custom & Self Build Association
National Self Build & Renovation Centre
The Self Build Portal website
£ Building Cost Calculators
Building-cost.net cost calculator
The BCIS calculator - from the RICS
Useful Selfbuild Information
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- Channel 4 Grand Designs -the TV series with presenter Kevin
McCloud following eight sets of people as they built their own
homes.
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- Developing Skills
-self build courses in association with Homebuilding and Renovation
Magazine.
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- Ebuild -online resource for self-builders,
with discussion and events forums.
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- Forever Green
-run by architect Rob Hillier, an architect who specialises in
environmentally friendly building buildings and working with
community self build groups.
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- Green building store -environmentally sensitive building products
from Environmental Construction Products Ltd of Meltham, Yorkshire.
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- National Homebuilding and Renovating Show -register online for tickets.
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- Self Build ABC
-comprehensive resource on self build houses offers details on
building plots for sale, purchasing land for sale through land
agents, planning and constructing a self build home.
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- 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.
www.citb-constructionskills.co.uk/healthsafety/moreinformation/legislation/workatheight.asp
How to save energy www.est.org.uk/myhome
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