What we offer

The Task Force can offer bespoke Custom and Self Build housing support, including:

  • Advising, preparing and implementing town planning strategies, policies, masterplans and design codes
  • Support for larger scale projects (eg. serviced building plots)
  • Developing and implementing demand assessments to inform Strategic Housing Market Assessments or site/area-specific policies and proposals
  • Advice on development finance and undertaking site viability assessments
  • Research and analysis
  • Application of Right to Build legislation locally
  • Advice on promoting demand registers and linking these to supply of serviced plots
  • Enabling neighbourhood planning initiatives
  • Support for viable group Custom and Self Build projects
  • Holding workshops or training events
  • Advice on good practice from across the UK and internationally.

The Task Force is not available to provide adversarial support for planning appeals or Examinations in Public.

Task Force rates

Support will be:

  • Tailored to an organisation’s specific needs and undertaken to an agreed timetable.
  • Delivered by one or more of our Task Force Experts, overseen by the Task Force Director.
  • Local Authorities – £600 per day.
  • Community groups – £600 per day.
  • Developers, landowners and other private clients– £700 per day.
  • Third party commissions– £800 per day.

The above rates are subject to change and are all excluding VAT and incurred expenses

PLUS: all new consultancy clients will automatically become National Custom and Self Build Association (NaCSBA) members for a year*, upon signing a contract with the Right to Build Task Force. Membership ensures their voice is adding weight to NaCSBA as it works to make Custom and Self Build a mainstream choice for everyone.

*Membership, unless as a Not For Profit Supporter, is dependent on organisations accepting the terms and conditions of NaCSBA's Code of Practice, helping to protect consumers. More information is available here.

Contact Us

If you want to contact the Task Force and register your interest in receiving support or becoming an Expert, please get in touch here.