Project: Self Build House
Location: Whalley
Cost: £200 – £300k tbc

Associate Architect: Jules Karczewski
Contractor: tbc
Structural Engineer: Richard Shuttleworth / Icis Designs Ltd

Structural Insulated Panel Desgin & Production: SIPCO
Site Programme: tbc
Service: RIBA Plan of Work Stage 0 – 7
Project Status: Full Planning Permission granted March 2022 , Building Regs granted March 2023 and the building works completed and occupied December 2025

Description: The project brief was to test through both a Pre-App submission and full planning application, the potential for an in-principle approval on a ‘self-build and custom house’ within a side garden plot in Open Countryside just outside of the Settlement Boundary. The application looked to gain acceptance of the exemptions test for a limited infill develiopment and exemplar design as part of the so-called Paragraph 79 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Planning permission was granted in full in March 2022, and this was followed by Building Regulations approved the following year. The self-build is now complete, with the house being occupied from December 2025.

Planning submissions had included a detailed Design & Access Statement prepared by Atoll and backed-up with a 3D CAD model of both existing and proposed.