Affordable, high quality, low carbon, wheelchair accessible housing. This is not too good to be true. We're doing it and let's be clear about what we mean when we use these terms: 

Solving today's Local Authority housing challenges needs new models. AccessiblePRS works closely with Agile Property to unlock land so that you don't need to sell it, structure projects in spite of complex stakeholders, and to deliver homes to help you meet your statutory obligations and help people in housing need. We are not developers. We are coproduction partners delivering low carbon, affordable homes.  Regularly, we introduce or signpost capital funding to our projects.

We are about creating a new supply for Local Authorities, shifting away from the expensive and fraught daily search for emergency and temporary PRS beds, hostels and accessible properties. This provides surety of housing supply and reduces the unsustainable, Local Authority, accommodation budget overspend. We have pilots on the ground already in Bristol and Torbay, and our objective is to pilot this with other innovative LAs. 

We are partners with Agile Property. They support our work by manufacturing good quality, sustainable housing individually or at scale, that can be designed on a property by property basis, or by property design type. They comply with Nationally Defined Space Standards, exceed Building Regulations and meet the 2025 Future Homes Standard. The properties surpass the Housing Industry Standard 60 years Design Life. The homes are made predominantly from natural materials (timber and straw), so bank carbon (a one bed home banks 27 tonnes of atmospheric carbon). They are energy efficient, and can be delivered in 24 weeks from point of order. They solve multiple housing issues, and not just one siloed approach - which invariably tends to exclude accessibility.

Our homes are built, using MMC (prefabricated homes) with a design that can allow a property to be moved. Whilst moving a property is not desirable, it is possible. So if after, say, an initial 15 year lease, your local authority decides it wants to allocate the land to some other use, the property can then be moved to another similar plot. This removes the risk that Local Authority has with traditional developers, where the LA has to make a choice to sell the family silver (their land).

Our solution is flexible. It needs to be: Local Authorities are large and complex organisations, and faced with the daily pressures of housing, putting a new model in place can seem too remote to consider, despite leaders asking for new solutions. As a collaborative approach with existing partners, we've been able to use pilot schemes - as small as one home - to unlock a situation, and demonstrate cost savings and solutions that our LA partner hadn't even hoped for! Solutions don't need to tie in an LA forever, and there is no risk for the Local Authority: no selling of land, no giveaways. Additionally, as we can do the heavy lifting, there is no extra resourcing required by the LA. Sounds too good to be true? Please schedule a call so we can present ourselves in more detail. 

If any of the following sounds familiar (not an exhaustive list!) we'd be pleased to hear from you to talk you through how we can help, by providing good quality, sustainable and wheelchair accessible homes: