[Griff]

In the States, what is happening is that owner-builders are forced through planning and inspection hoops that can only be met by using professional builders and indebtedness. It blocks capable people with limited resources from home ownership. I grew up in a time and rural area where property rights were meaningful. That no longer being the case, I slipped my dream through just in time. It may be different in Wales but the push for planning in the US aligns with much else that happens here, its about banks, business interests, forced conformity, controlling others, and locking out the dispossessed.