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About five miles south of the City of London, on a steeply sloping wooded site opposite a large hilltop park, is a piece of self-build history. It’s a winding cul-de-sac, accommodating, among the trees, 13 detached houses, dating from 1984 to 1987 – all of them self-built.

Walter’s Way is named after the architect who designed these distinctive homes. Berlin-born Walter Segal arrived in Britain in 1933. He was interested in modernist design and timber frame, though, to his frustration, he spent most of his career designing conventional buildings. But the building that makes him memorable was, effectively, a garden shed....

Action needed to create more self-build opportunities

Proposals for radical reforms to the planning system need to deliver as intended, warns Andrew Baddeley-Chappell

There is a major consumer market in the UK where most people don’t want to buy the latest product and yet, despite its output being lower than many other sectors, the suppliers are generally amongst the most profitable companies in the country....

House Sales Up

House sales rose by just under 10% on the previous month to October, and more than 8% higher than the same month in 2019....

10-point plan for ‘green revolution’

Environmental groups and the renewables sector have broadly welcomed government plans to implement what it describes as a £12bn green industrial revolution, which could see a quadrupling of offshore wind power within a decade and the installation of 600,000 heat pumps every year by 2028....