Supported living · Delivered end-to-end
Public Housing delivers care-led supported accommodation for local authorities, NHS trusts and registered charities — owning the full cycle from land and planning through construction to long-term, commissioner-aligned management.
114 units under construction in our current pipeline · Working with 14+ local authority partners
Trusted by commissioners across the UK
Our approach
Most supported-living schemes fail at the seams between land buyer, developer, and operator. We close those seams: we are the same organisation from site identification to year-ten management.
Off-market sourcing aligned to local commissioning need and accommodation gaps in the JSNA.
Care-led design briefs, pre-app engagement, and policy-compliant planning submissions.
Direct delivery or vetted main-contractor route, monitored against the commissioner’s service spec.
Phased handover into the commissioning pathway — voids minimised, residents matched carefully.
In-house tenancy management, partnership with care providers, and quarterly performance reporting.
What we do
Off-market site origination, residual viability, and acquisition aligned to local commissioning need.
Pre-app strategy, policy review, design teams, and full planning submissions with care-led design briefs.
New-build, conversion, and remodelling — designed to commissioner specs, built to long-life specifications.
Tenancy and property management in lockstep with care providers, with transparent commissioner reporting.
Who we house
Every scheme is shaped around the commissioner’s service specification and the residents who will live there. We design once, with the people who will use the building.
Long-term supported tenancies, designed around independence, sensory needs, and step-down from inpatient settings.
Recovery-focused accommodation with care-coordinator partnership for adults moving on from acute or rehabilitation services.
Semi-independent and supported pathways for 16+ care leavers, in partnership with local authority commissioning teams.
Extra-care and specialist accommodation for older adults, including dementia-friendly design and accessible adaptations.
Safe, dispersed, dignified accommodation delivered with refuge and charity partners under commissioned pathways.
Move-on accommodation aligned to Housing First and rough sleeper initiative funding, with wraparound key-working partners.
Recent work
38 self-contained units, complemented by shared amenity space, private consultation rooms for visiting clinicians and care professionals, dedicated office space, and landscaped gardens and terraces. Currently under construction.
Specification developed in close partnership with the London Borough of Kingston to meet the council’s commissioning need; programme run by Public Housing as the single accountable counterparty for land, planning, construction and onward management.
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Public Housing has been the rare partner that signs for the building and the operating model. They sit on the same side of the table as the commissioner — which is where this work needs to be done.
— Commissioning Lead, North-West Local Authority
About
Public Housing (legal entity: Public Housing Limited) is a joint venture between Connect Property and Zenith Land Ltd — combining decades of land, planning and construction experience with care-led housing management practice. Together we are a single accountable counterparty for commissioners and partners.
Speak to us
Tell us what you need to commission. We’ll come back with a clear position on whether we can deliver — and on what programme.