Why Richard Bacon MP thinks self-build is the future of housing

Richard Bacon is one of the UK’s biggest champions of self-build and custom-build housing. The Conservative MP for South Norfolk founded an All-Party Parliamentary Group in 2013 to promote the practice, and in 2015 pushed through a law to facilitate it. Bacon’s Self-Build & Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 obliges local authorities to keep registers of people seeking land on which to........