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info@CivicPlace.co.uk

Civic Place
  • Home
  • Our model
    • How it works
    • Planning
    • Risk
  • For councils
    • Value Proposition
    • Funding
    • Questions Councils Ask
  • About us
    • Our Leadership
    • Our Partners
  • Contact us
    • Get In Touch

How it works

A delivery model that puts the risk where it belongs

Most councils are not short of land. What they lack is a way to build on it without borrowing, carrying construction risk or tying up officer time. Civic Place provides that route. The council grants a lease, we deliver the homes, and a Registered Provider owns and manages them for the long term. 

How a scheme works

 

  1. The council grants a lease, and keeps the freehold. The council grants Civic Place a long lease on an underused site. The lease restricts use to affordable housing only and includes a clawback: if we do not submit a planning application within 12 months, or otherwise breach the lease, the land comes back.
  2. We secure planning for affordable housing only. Civic Place designs, surveys and takes the scheme through planning at our own cost. The consent is for affordable housing only, so there is no route to switch the scheme to market sale.
  3. We fund and build the homes. Civic Place and its partners fund the scheme and take it from consent to practical completion. We carry all construction, cost overrun and programme risk.
  4. A Registered Provider takes on the homes. At practical completion the homes pass to a Registered Provider, which owns, lets and manages them for the long term.
  5. The council nominates the tenants and shares in the surplus. Homes go to households on the council’s own housing register: 100% of first lets and 75% thereafter. The council also receives 20% of the scheme surplus, paid in cash through an overage agreement.








Clear roles, from lease to long-term management

The council

Registered Provider

The council

 Grants the lease, keeps the freehold and nominates tenants from its housing register. 

Civic Place

Registered Provider

The council

 Leads the scheme: planning, design, funding and delivery to practical completion. 

Registered Provider

Registered Provider

Registered Provider

Owns, lets and manages the homes for the long term. 

Our partners

Registered Provider

Registered Provider

Institutional investment, planning, professional team and public law advice, from AlphaReal, Fuller Long, Third Revolution Projects, Pick Everard and Sharpe Pritchard. 

Selected projects by Pick Everard

Bristol

Hillingdon London

Hillingdon London

Bristol - York Gate

   York Gate is a distinguished residential development located in the heart of Bristol Temple Quarter, encompassing 221 apartments. The development offers a range of amenities such as ground floor commercial spaces, coworking areas, and an underground car park. The 11-storey building is designed with accessibility in mind, featuring new courtyards and a roof garden that enhances the public realm, providing a vibrant and welcoming environment for residents and the wider community. 

Hillingdon London

Hillingdon London

Hillingdon London

 This residential project was part of a large masterplan to transform a former RAF site into an exciting, mixed-use estate. 

 The masterplan has planning consent for 1,340 residential units, commercial office and retail development, primary school, theatre, GP surgery, hotel and care home. The scheme also includes the 40-acre public park, named St Andrew’s Park, situated alongside the River Pinn. 

Bristol

Hillingdon London

St Albans

 Our proposal for 40-48 Midland Road in Bristol combines this ethos to deliver 71 one-and two-bedroom apartments, centred around a series of vertical gardens at its heart. We completed the design to RIBA Stage 2+, fully considering construction methods, buildability, client budget, and adhering to current fire legislation for a high-rise apartment building. This ensures two accessible means of escape from every apartment. 

St Albans

Southwark London

St Albans

 Jubilee Square is a mixed-use residential scheme designed to support the regeneration of St Albans city centre. The project involved demolishing existing buildings and redeveloping the site to provide 93 mixed-tenure residential units, all of which are affordable housing. The development includes a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments, along with office and retail space, landscaping, public realm improvements, and access and parking facilities. 

Milton Keynes

Southwark London

Southwark London

 Developed as part of a phased mixed-use development, this nine-storey new YMCA accommodation provides 198 apartments in a high-rise residential accommodation alongside accompanying offices, community facilities and commercial units. 

Southwark London

Southwark London

Southwark London

 This project delivered new build residential units and a community hall for the London Borough of Southwark. The new development was instigated to meet the growing housing demand of the local area and provide high quality and affordable housing to the community. 


Civic Place Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 17043041. Registered office: 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX.

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