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East of England

Care-sector property in Berkhamsted.

Maine Property Solutions is a property company. We find, prepare and manage buildings — we do not provide care, support or supervision, and we are not registered with CQC or Ofsted. Care and support in any property we manage is provided by the registered provider, not by us.

We have not yet placed a property with a provider in Berkhamsted. Tell us the specification and we will look for it.

Tell us the specification

The property side

Property for care providers in Berkhamsted

In Berkhamsted as everywhere, the registration follows the care provider — never the landlord and never the building. That is what makes a landlord's role in this sector a clean one.

We would sit on the landlord side of the line. The provider holds the registration, the care contract and the relationship with the commissioner; we hold the building.

The first useful conversation is about the specification, not about stock. Tell us what the building has to be able to do and we will go looking for it.

The East of England is well outside our Birmingham base. We hold no property in Berkhamsted and no local presence there.

Three of the fourteen

What the property has to be, sector by sector

Each of these buys a different building for a different reason, and Hertfordshire is no exception. Three are set out here; the rest have their own pages.

Asylum Dispersal Accommodation

Two product types. Self-contained houses or flats for families, and HMOs for single people. Dispersed accommodation means ordinary houses and flats in ordinary residential areas rather than purpose-built sites, and allocation is on a no-choice basis with no requirement to stay within a district.

Emergency & Crisis Placement

The statutory suitability tests are about how much room there is, how the inside is arranged and where the building sits — not about fixtures and not about finish. Giving a household its own cooking and laundry is the single change that lifts a property out of the disfavoured category. And bed and breakfast is never suitable for a 16 or 17 year old, not even for one night.

Specialist & Adapted Housing

The numbers are specific and they drive the build. Putting in a level access shower means constructing a full wet room and a ceiling that can carry a 200kg hoist. At Category 3 the entrance storey has to be reachable without steps and the controls have to sit within a reduced reach range. Room-by-room turning space is set out too, including 1200mm by 1200mm inside every bedroom doorway. Wheelchair adaptable is the default; wheelchair accessible applies only where a planning condition says so.

The line, drawn plainly

What we can do, and what we cannot

What we can do

  • Find property against a written specification — size, layout, location, adaptation, tenure and the compliance set the building has to carry.
  • Prepare it: works, furnishing, certificates and the paperwork a provider or a commissioner will want to see before it takes the building on.
  • Manage the building afterwards, if that is what is wanted — repairs, contractors, certificate renewals and the landlord side of the relationship.
  • Put the proposed terms, the works and the timetable in front of you in writing before anything is committed.

What we do not do

  • We do not provide care, support or supervision, of any kind, to anyone.
  • We are not registered with CQC and we are not registered with Ofsted. A landlord letting a building to a care provider is carrying on neither regulated activity and has nothing to register.
  • We do not employ, supply or manage care or support staff, and we make no claim about the vetting of anyone else's.
  • We hold no framework place, no contract and no position on any supplier list with any council, health body or government department.
  • We hold no care-sector placement anywhere. Maine Property Solutions operates two properties, both in Coventry, and has no managed instruction in any sector.

Your Questions

Questions we get asked

Not covered here? Tell us the specification and we will answer for your situation.

Do you have properties in Berkhamsted?

No. Maine Property Solutions operates two properties, both in Coventry, and holds no managed instruction anywhere. We have not yet placed a property with a provider in Berkhamsted. If you tell us the specification we will look for it.

Do you provide care or support in Berkhamsted?

No. We do not provide care, support or supervision, and we are not registered with CQC or Ofsted. Care and support in any property we manage is provided by the registered provider, not by us.

Do you have a local team in Berkhamsted?

No. We are a property company registered at Office 1, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ, and we do not claim an office, a branch or staff in Berkhamsted.

What would you actually do for a provider in Berkhamsted?

Source property against a written specification, prepare it, and manage the building afterwards if that is wanted. Everything about care, support, supervision and staff stays with the provider.

If a placement in Berkhamsted is being held up by the property, tell us what the property has to be.

Tell us the specification

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