Affordable homes on council land. No capital. No development risk.
Civic Place turns underused public land into affordable and social rent homes.
Why act now
Councils are paying for a housing system that is not delivering
Councils in England spent £2.93bn on temporary accommodation in 2025/26 (MHCLG, 2026), and 135,580 households were living in it in March 2026 (MHCLG, 2026). Much of that money goes on nightly paid accommodation that costs more each year and leaves nothing behind.
Land is not the constraint. Brownfield registers in England have capacity for at least 1.41 million homes (CPRE, 2025). What is missing is a delivery route that does not ask councils to borrow, carry construction risk or wait years for a disposal.
Led by people who have run council estates
Civic Place is led by Adam Smith FCIOB, former Director of Estates and Facilities at the London Borough of Harrow and Director of Property at Islington, Oldham and Buckinghamshire.
The leadership team brings experience in development, investment and regeneration from Savills, CBRE and a major London regeneration programme.
Our partners: Our partners: AlphaReal (institutional investment), Fuller Long and Third Revolution Projects (planning), Pick Everard (professional team) and Sharpe Pritchard (public law).
