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Self Commissioned Homes Unit at Homes England
Homes England is the government’s housing and regeneration agency. Our main aim is to accelerate housing delivery and regeneration across England, in line with our belief that affordable, quality homes in welldesigned places are key to improving people’s lives.
The Self Commissioned Homes Unit (SCH) was set up on the back of The Bacon Review – which explored how self and custom build could be scaled up in the UK. It concluded that the government should create a new custom and self build housing delivery division within Homes England, to enable the creation of serviced building plots on small and large sites, and support the delivery of custom and self build housing at scale, across the country. After reviewing the state of the housing sector, the government added that they felt the unit should look at all forms of custom build and community-led housing.