In 2002, we established the Rural Housing Enabler service in Hampshire and we continue to support the provision of rural affordable housing for local people. This service has enabled over 1700 local people to remain in or return to their local area.
Rural Housing Enablers support rural parish councils and communties to identify the affordable housing needed in their community. They also help look for suitable sites, consult with the community and work with local authorties and housing associations to deliver the homes needed.
Hampshire Homes Hub
As Hampshire Homes Hub we continue to offer this service. More information about the community housing expertise that we can provide can be found here
Building your own home
We recently hosted a webinar on ‘Building your own home – Self and custom build in Hampshire’.
Collaborative self or custom build is where a group of people join forces to build their homes together on a larger site. By building together the group can share costs and support each other. Collaborative self and custom build projects can deliver market sale homes, affordable sale homes or homes for affordable rent and offer a broad range of options for designing and/or building your home as part of a group.
You can view a recording of the event by clicking this link.
It covers:
- Working with others to achieve your self-build dream
- Finance for self and custom build projects
- How Local Authorities can support self and custom build projects
