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Prime Land Consultants Tackle Housing Shortage for Individuals with Learning Difficulties
Specialist Housing for Individuals with Learning Difficulties Needed The UK is currently grappling with a shortage of housing options for individuals with learning difficulties. In 2021, it was estimated that about 1.5 million people in the UK had a learning...
Do You Have a Potential Light Industrial Site or Logistics Site?
Prime Land, a specialist land agency, buys land and development opportunities off-market across the UK with potential light industrial and logistics developments for clients. We also help and advised landowners, like farmers and developers, ensure they get good market...
Planning Reforms in the ‘Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill’ Mean More Later Living Home Sites
The Levelling up Housing and Communities planning consultation underway this winter may have negative implications for mainstream house building, but it is good news for older people’s housing and provides some hope for the later living homes sector. “If you’re a...
Huge Shortage of Land for ‘Later Living’ Homes
"Development sites are required for 3,000 ‘later living’ communities in England alone!" Argues Tom Rankin of Prime Land Consultants in this article. In the UK there is a dire shortage of high-quality retirement homes with care and wellbeing facilities on site. So, in...
House Price Inflation Projections 2019
There is little variance in national annual house price inflation forecasts from different agencies at this early stage in this difficult unpredictable year ahead . Lets see how accurate they are at end of 2019! As ever 'UK house price...
Tick list when selling potential development Land
When considering selling land there are basic points which should be addressed and established. These can be summarised under the mnemonic I use which is GRAMSTOP. G - Ground conditions. Brownfield or green field ?Are there any old mining works...
New retirement village momentum in UK
A recent ARCO report highlighted that only 0.5% of the UK population live in a private retirement village highlights the huge potential for the nascent sector here in the UK when you look at the figures for other developed countries - see below....
Land requirements for retirement housing Autumn 2017
We are active in land acquisition for retirement village operator clients. Most potential sites may have Planning issues but 'this comes with the territory' . Predominantly in England, and from 2 acres upwards but don't rule out...
Current projects Summer 2017
We've been working on acquiring sites north and south of the Border since our last update. It's been a productive 1st half of the year with 5 sites we hope about to come good in the last quarter. Similar to waiting for a...