Your land reimagined for care

Your land reimagined for care

Your land reimagined for care

DEVELOPMENTS

We develop high quality care homes England urgently needs.

Bringing over 75 years of combined experience in the development industry.

We design every care home with the community in mind, from ensuring it reflects the local character of the area, to creating a genuine sense of home.

  • Abbey Park

    87 Humber Road, Coventry, CV3 4FE

    Greenacres Care Home

    The Horseshoe, Banstead, SM7 2BQ

    Elizabeth Court

    Grenadier Place, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 5YJ

  • Southerndown Care Home

    Worcester Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5YF

    Clandon Road

    Cothelstone and Field Fares, Clandon Road, Send, GU23 7LA

    Coxheath

    Heath Road, Linton, Kent, ME17 4NU

  • Oakleigh Care Home

    Evelyn Gardens, Godstone, RH9 8BD

    Lake View Lodge Care Home

    Limeburners Drive, Halling, Rochester, ME2 1FA

    The Goldbridge Care Home

    3 Kleinwort Close, Haywards Heath, RH16 4XH

  • Melksham

    Land at Longleaze Lane, Melksham, SN12 6UN

    Maple Leaf House

    Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3RY

    Linwood Care Home

    9 Mercer Close, Thames Ditton, KT7 0BS

  • The Wingfield Care Home

    70A Wingfield Road, Trowbridge, BA14 9EN

    Westgate House Care Home

    Millington Road, Wallingford, OX10 8FE

    Whitstable

    Old Thanet Way, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1PP

  • Woodlands House and Nursing Home

    118 Cavendish Road, London, SW19 2HJ

    Yardley Grange Nursing Home

    465 Church Road, Yardley, Birmingham, B33 8NY

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WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU

A significant shortage of modern care homes exists across the United Kingdom.

The gap is widening every year. Many existing care homes simply are not fit for purpose any more, with 1 in 7 care homes in England currently do not meet the required Care Quality Commission standard.

It is a long term, structural need, and it is why care home development is one of the most stable and well supported areas of property development in the country today.

Councils and planning committees are increasingly aware of the pressure they are under to support new care provision in their area. Set against this backdrop of national policy pressure and clear local need, well designed care home developments make a strong case within the planning process, often a stronger one than other forms of development could offer on the same site.

That matters directly to you as a landowner. A stronger planning case means a stronger foundation for realising the uplift in value on your land, without the cost or risk usually associated with getting there.

This is where we come in.

Lansdowne Developments exists to turn this need into good, well designed care homes, and to do it properly. We bring together a team with over 75 years of combined experience delivering care homes, extra care and retirement living schemes across the country.

We handle everything, from the initial planning work through to a full application, entirely at our own cost. You take on no financial risk, and you are only committed to a sale if planning is actually granted.

We are not asking you to gamble on an idea.

We are offering you a genuine, well evidenced route to realising your land's potential, backed by an experienced team who has done this successfully many times before.

WHY IT IS IMPORTANT

The United Kingdom faces a significant shortage of modern care homes

Many existing care homes are no longer fit for purpose. Having visited many of these homes ourselves, we have seen too many elderly people living without the dignity, privacy and comfort they deserve.

  • Government Support

    Our government has made fixing the social care system a priority in the UK

    They are pledging to establish a national care service as the current state of care provision has been described as a "major dereliction of duty" by successive governments.

    This strengthens the case for planning consent and with it, the opportunity to realise the value uplift on your land.

  • Community

    A genuine community asset

    Regular visits from local nurseries and schools create intergenerational contact. With real benefits both to residents and children who gain social connection and purpose.

    Open days and community events bring the care home and neighbours together, ensuring residents are properly integrated into the local community.

  • Housing Crisis

    Releasing family homes back into the market

    A large number of the elderly people still live in their family homes that no longer meet their requirements, but stay for lack of a suitable alternative.

    A local care home gives this generation a genuine reason to move. This puts much needed family homes back into the local market, helping ease pressure on supply for younger families.

  • Local Jobs

    Creating local jobs

    There are long term employment opportunities for the local community spanning care and nursing staff, catering, housekeeping, maintenance and management roles.

    Unlike a one off housing development, a care home is a permanent local employer that supports up to 60 full and part time jobs for decades.

Government Support

Community

Housing Crisis

Local Jobs

Government Support

Our government has made fixing the social care system a priority in the UK

They are pledging to establish a national care service as the current state of care provision has been described as a "major dereliction of duty" by successive governments.

This strengthens the case for planning consent and with it, the opportunity to realise the value uplift on your land.

Government Support

Community

Housing Crisis

Local Jobs

Government Support

Our government has made fixing the social care system a priority in the UK

They are pledging to establish a national care service as the current state of care provision has been described as a "major dereliction of duty" by successive governments.

This strengthens the case for planning consent and with it, the opportunity to realise the value uplift on your land.

PROCESS

What it costs you?

Nothing. We cover every cost involved in bringing a site through to planning.

The drawings, planning consultants, the pre-application submission, the full planning application, and any surveys needed to support it. We also cover your reasonable legal fees for reviewing the option agreement.

You carry no financial risk at any stage. If planning is refused, that cost is ours, not yours.

01

Site Identification

We use specialist mapping software to analyse planning data, demographics and land ownership across England, helping us identify sites with genuine potential.

02

Initial Approach

Once we have identified a potential opportunity, we carry out a detailed desktop review before writing to you personally to explain our interest. This is not a mass mailing. Every letter is based on real analysis of your specific site.

03

Site Visit

If you are open to the idea in principle, we arrange a site visit to assess the land and meet with you face to face to talk through our proposal. This is your chance to ask questions directly and hear more about what we have in mind, with no obligation to proceed.

04

Pre-Application Submission

We prepare a full pre-application pack, including drawings and a planning statement, and submit it to the council to gauge their initial position before going further. This reduces risk for both of us before either side commits more time.

05

Option Agreement

If the council’s response is positive, we draft a two-year option agreement for you and your solicitor to review. This is an option, not a sale. It gives us the right to buy your land at an agreed price if planning is granted. You remain the owner throughout and can continue using your land as you do now. If we do not secure planning within the option period, the agreement simply lapses and your land stays yours, with nothing owed. Your reasonable solicitor’s fees are covered by us, so you can take independent advice without worrying about the cost.

06

Full Planning Application

Once the option is signed, we prepare and submit a full planning application. All costs, consultants, reports and application fees, are covered entirely by Lansdowne Developments.

07

Site Purchase

Once planning is approved, we purchase the site from you at the agreed price set out in the option, securing the full uplift in value for you.

01

Site Identification

We use specialist mapping software to analyse planning data, demographics and land ownership across the UK, helping us identify sites with genuine potential.

02

Initial Approach

Once we have identified a potential opportunity, we carry out a detailed desktop review before writing to you personally to explain our interest.

03

Site Visit

If you are open to the idea in principle, we arrange a site visit to assess the land and meet with you face to face to talk through our proposal.

04

Pre-Application Submission

We prepare a full pre-application pack including drawings and a planning statement and submit it to the local council to gauge their initial position before going further.

05

Option Agreement

Once the council’s response is positive, we draft a two year option agreement for you and your solicitor to review, at no cost to you.

06

Full Planning Application

Once the option is signed, we prepare and submit a full planning application. All costs, consultants, reports and application fees, are covered entirely by Lansdowne Developments.

07

Site Purchase

Site Purchase

Working with landowners, on your terms. From first contact to completion - at no cost to you.

MEET THE TEAM

Behind Lansdowne Developments sits a team with over 75 years of experience delivering quality care homes, extra care, retirement living, retail and commercial schemes across the UK.

Jim Hendley

Chairman

Jim spent 40 years working for Henry Riley LLP prior to its acquisition by TSA. Before stepping away Jim spent 8 years as Managing Partner, before becoming Executive Chairman. During this time he advised and delivered development projects for leading organisations including Sainsbury’s, Guardian Royal Exchange, Amazon, BUPA, Housing 21, Enterprise Retirement Living and Cole Waterhouse.

Louis Wilkin

Managing Director

Louis brings direct experience in care home site acquisition and development, gained at Aspire LPP, where he played a key role in many of the projects featured here. He has been involved at every stage of the development process, from initial conversations with landowners to running planning applications and supporting transactions with care home operators. Louis holds a BA (Hons) in Geography and an MA in Housing and City Planning.

Gary Reeve-Wing

Director of Operations

Gary has spent his 30 year career delivering care, extra care and retirement schemes across the UK, leading dozens of projects from initial site identification through to completion for operators such as Barchester, Hallmark and Anchor. He was Director at Castleoak Care Partnerships, one of the UK's leading developers of care and assisted living accommodation with over 20,000 units delivered, before running his own care home development consultancy for 13 years.

“Our goal is to create care homes that we would confidently choose for our own families.”

“Our goal is to create care homes that we would confidently choose for our own families.”

“Our goal is to create care homes that we would confidently choose for our own families.”

Louis Wilkin, Managing Director

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