Making affordable housing a reality.

Hopefield Partnerships provides a unique, holistic housing model to assist local authorities and registered providers in the funding, construction and delivery of homes for low to middle income households.

We offer a high quality, dynamic and innovative funding solution to the development process, from inception through to handover of the completed home, addressing the current crisis in housing provision experienced throughout the UK.  

About Hopefield Partnerships.

Hopefield Partnerships Ltd was established to address part of the ongoing and deepening, chronic shortfall of affordable rental housing. With funding from private institutional and private equity investors, the Hopefield Model provides high quality housing for rent.

Working through local authorities and registered housing providers, Hopefield Partnerships, within a matter of weeks, can fund the provision of energy efficient modern housing, ready for rent to low and middle income households.

The Hopefield Model provides off-site volumetric Modern Methods of Construction to deliver homes in unrivalled timescales.
By providing a new form of high specification houses, Hopefield Partnerships will change the traditional concept of house building in the UK.

The management team have extensive experience and expertise in the provision of housing stock, finance, government procurement and innovation.

Hart Builders on site and building 85 affordable homes on former Edinburgh school site.

Edinburgh-based developer Hopefield Partnerships appointed Hart Builders to deliver a multi-million-pound new housing development at a former primary school in the capital.

Construction work started in May 2020 on the £11 million development which will see 85 new homes built on the empty brownfield site at Hunter’s Tryst Primary School in Oxgangs Green. Despite the significant issues resulting out of the current COVID restriction works are progressing well and are currently reported as being slightly ahead of programme. It is hoped that the first houses can be handed over later this year.

Photographs showing current progress on site.

The development has been designed around a village green theme, and the spacious new homes consisting of a mix of 79 one, two and three-bedroom flats and six terraced houses, will be let for mid-market rent when they are completed.

The new homes are being delivered as part of PfP Capital’s mid-market rent fund set up by PfP Capital and supported by the Scottish Government which aims to provide around 1,000 mid-market rental homes across the country. It is the second of two large developments that Hart Builders is constructing for PfP Capital in Edinburgh, which will provide 236 new affordable homes for the city.

Hopefield Partnerships chief executive, Kenneth Boyd, said: “We are delighted to appoint Hart Builders to deliver the Oxgangs development. Together we will be able to offer our high quality and energy efficient homes in a carefully designed setting that links well with the existing community.”

PfP Capital fund director, William Kyle, added: “We are pleased to be working with Hopefield Partnerships and Hart Builders on the delivery of 85 much needed homes for mid-market rent in Edinburgh. We look forward to delivering these high quality, affordable rental homes to the market as part of our partnership with the Scottish Government.”

Olivebank, Musselburgh.

Hopefield Partnerships have acquired a site at Olivebank, in Musselburgh and are prosing to build 44 apartments on it. The project is currently going through planning and is expected to be granted approval by the end of March. We have agreed a build contact with Harts and intend to commence work on site in June 2021. The overall contract value is just over £7m.

Future projects.

Hopefield Partnerships are now preferred bidder for a further site in Musselburgh, 176 High street. This will see the development of 37 apartments and some 600 m2 of commercial space. It is proposed that this project will be funded by a private investor and would be the first of a number of projects which will be brought forward as part of this funding programme.