Licensed shared accommodation
Licensed houses, supplied to the people who need them.
Prime Orchard Residential leases licensed houses in multiple occupation from their owners, whole and empty, and lets each one to a provider of supported accommodation for young people aged 16 and 17 leaving care. One lease, one tenant, one rent, paid whether the house is full or empty.
What the company does
A provider that has won a contract to accommodate young people leaving care needs a licensed house that suits its service, and finding one takes time it would rather spend on the young people. An owner whose property could serve that purpose rarely wants the licensing, the management regulations or the occupier contact that goes with it.
Prime Orchard Residential sits between them. The company finds the house, holds the lease and the relationship with the owner, and lets the house whole to the provider, who runs it day to day and carries its running costs. The owner gets one tenant and one rent, and the provider gets a house that fits its brief.
For supported accommodation providers
A licensed house that meets your brief, let to you as a whole on a term matched to your own commissioned contract.
For landlords
One tenant on a long company let, one rent on the same date every month, and the bills and day to day running off your hands.
What is supplied, and what is not
Licensed houses in multiple occupation, let whole to one provider, so that the house takes at least five young people. Every house is laid out to feel like a home rather than an institution.
- Five lettable bedrooms, or six with the one closest to the front door used as the staff room
- A kitchen big enough to take a dining table for everyone, or a separate dining room, and a living room as well as that
- A staff room by the front door. Not a bedroom, and used for private meetings and for staff staying over
- A WC on the ground floor, and better still a shower with it
- One bathroom for every three bedrooms
- A garden
- No bedsits. An en suite bedroom is fine, a bedroom with its own kitchen is not
The company does not supply self contained accommodation, bed and breakfast or hotel rooms, and it does not let room by room.
Prime Orchard Residential is not a registered provider of social housing, is not registered with Ofsted, and provides no care, support or supervision. It provides accommodation and housing management. Where a property is let to a supported accommodation provider, that provider stands as landlord to every occupier, and the company takes no referral, matches no occupier and has no occupier contact at all.
Where we are looking
These are the areas with live demand behind them today. The list moves as providers win and change contracts, so a house outside it is still worth sending.
- South London
- West London
- Enfield
- Barking and Dagenham
- Runnymede, Spelthorne and Elmbridge
- Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire
- Coventry
- Leicester and Warwick
- Exeter and South Gloucestershire
- Bournemouth and Dorset
Send the postcode and the number of bedrooms and you will have an answer the same day.
Registered in England and Wales. The registered activities are letting and operating of own or leased real estate, and management of real estate on a fee or contract basis. Every house is checked for its licence, its planning position, vacant possession and lender consent before anything is signed. The company works with a provider from before they have seen a building, so that the house is sourced and specified to their requirements from the outset.
Enquiries from supported accommodation providers, and from owners of licensed houses, go to info@poresidential.co.uk or 07538 929484.