http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/950/regulation/3The Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Regulations 2016enTOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLANDStatute Law Database2026-03-15Expert Participation2016-10-31 TheSelf-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (c 17)(“the Act”) requires relevant authorities to keep a register of individuals and associations of individuals who are seeking to acquire serviced plots of land in the authority’s area and, unless exempt, to grant sufficient development permissions to meet the demand for self-build and custom housebuilding. These Regulations are made under sections 2B and 5 of, and the Schedule to, the Act and make provision in relation to the definition of a serviced plot of land, registers kept under the Act and exemption from the duty. 3 For the purpose of section 5 of the Act (interpretation) a plot of land is a serviced plot of land if it can, in the opinion of a relevant authority, be provided with the things mentioned in paragraph (a) of the definition of that expression, within the period before any development permission granted in relation to that land expires. The definition of “serviced plot of land” was substituted by the Housing and Planning Act 2016. Reg. 3 in force at 31.10.2016, see reg. 1