--- title: Self Build Date Planner description: "Tell it where you are in your self build and it projects the rest: when you get on site, when you move in, and what every delay actually costs you." --- The Self Build Journey · Community # Whatever stage you are at, when do you move in? Tell it where you are now and it projects the rest. Twelve stages, real durations, and what it costs you every time a decision waits. You start**—** On site**—** You move in**—** Where you are now Today's date Where England & Wales Scotland How far into it Just starting this stage About halfway Nearly finished How it goes Locked Everything lands Normal One thing goes wrong Add 8 weeks float **You already have consent.** When was the decision notice dated? Planning permission gives you three years to make a material start. ## The programme Bars show each stage. Where they overlap, that is deliberate — the brief runs while lawyers work, and technical design runs while the planners decide. Draft Free · takes twenty seconds ### Unlock the rest of the planner The dates above are yours to keep. Tell us who you are and the planner becomes a tool rather than a picture. - Tick milestones off as you reach them - Your programme saved, ready when you come back - Hold any stage and see what it costs - What expires while you wait - Your planning consent clock, watched - Best case and worst case, not just normal Show me the planner anyway → We use this to send you the guidance for the stage you are at, and nothing else. Unsubscribe in one click. **Planner unlocked.** Everything below is yours now, and this page will remember where you got to. ## Your progress Tick a milestone when you have the evidence for it, and put the date on it. The planner works out where you are and runs the programme from there. **Track your build against the journey** Tick each milestone off as you reach it. The planner reruns your dates from wherever you actually are, and remembers it next time you come back. Unlock the planner ## What happens if you pause Only the stages still in front of you. Slide one to hold it: everything downstream moves, and the things sitting on a clock start showing up below. **See what a delay actually costs** Hold any stage and watch the completion date move — and what expires while you wait. Your finance offer, your survey window, your consent, your VAT reclaim. Unlock the planner ## Where this sits The journey itself is free to read, and always will be. This planner is free too — it just needs to know who you are, so it can send you the guidance for the stage you are at. Free · no account Read the journey The whole thing, start to finish. Nothing held back from the content itself. - Twelve stages on screen, clickable - The same journey as a PDF, to keep - Every milestone, cost and rescue path - The cheat sheet download Read it, print it, follow it. Free · your details Run your build on it The planner stops being a picture and starts being your programme. - Tick milestones off as you reach them - Your programme saved for when you come back - Hold any stage and see what it costs - Your consent and VAT clocks, watched - Best case and worst case, not just normal Saved on this device for now. When the community platform lands, it moves with you.