ESP benefits all stakeholders in the house building process.

By developing within a framework designed to remove risk, raise quality and speed up the process, the whole community profits and authentic places emerge.

• For the local authority, benefit lies in the social sustainability of constructing a place or new neighbourhood, steered by those that actually want to live there, rather than driven by market assumptions and commercial speculation.

• For the individual residents, additional consumer choice and cost savings is offered.

• For the ‘enabling developer’, planning and market risk can be reduced by working directly with early adopter households who help the enabling developer.