The housing sector is facing huge challenges, many of which result from an ageing asset base which needs major investment to be sustainable over the long-term. This is in respect of the cost to maintain and use, environmental impacts, build quality, safety, the design and aesthetic of the home and the desirability of the wider place. Against that backdrop, we must do all we can to provide more new affordable homes. These challenges give rise to a number of questions:
How can we improve the number, quality and sustainability of affordable homes?
Which homes should we keep and improve?
Which homes should be sold or re-developed over time?
How can we best maximise capacity for investment in new, better quality social housing?
Integ helps housing associations develop a clear and effective response to these questions.
• Strategic Asset Management: helping housing associations maximise the long-term social and financial value of their social and affordable homes as well as supported housing, shared ownership, keyworker, student accommodation and market rented portfolios.
• Environmental Sustainability: comprehensive strategies which can involve horizon scanning across national and local policy frameworks, developing action plans with measurable targets and timeframes, and supporting stakeholder engagement and co-creation.
• Developing a balanced financial and non-financial performance assessment: This workstream can involve data audits and peer reviews as well as providing advice and support in implementing ‘off the shelf’ or developing bespoke in-house models.
• ESG Reporting: assisting with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting frameworks, enabling transparent performance measurement and compliance with investor and regulatory expectations. This can involve supporting data collection and verification, advising on performance metrics and impact narratives, and supporting ESG report drafting and stakeholder presentation.
• Framework development: helping to predict future asset interventions across investment, regeneration, and disposal and replacement at portfolio level in order to support robust business planning assumptions.
• Tenanted acquisitions and disposals: providing project management and ‘critical friend’ support.
• Scheme specific options appraisals: advising on the full range of strategic options for individual schemes, including PAS2035-compliant retrofit, regeneration and disposal.
• Bid writing and grant funding support: helping to secure funding for sustainability and retrofit projects by ensuring strategic alignment with funding criteria and policy priorities, providing technical narrative development and cost-benefit analysis and supporting partnership coordination and delivery planning.
• Biodiversity plans: enhancing ecological value (flora and fauna) across communal land by helping to develop site-specific goals and targets, ensuring compliance with emerging legislation, and supporting resident engagement and education initiatives.
We believe we strike the right balance between in-house sector experience and working as consultants with multiple clients who range in scale, geography and strategic priorities
Nicholas Holt
Director
Nicholas is a senior chartered surveyor with over 19 years experience in real estate and housing markets. As a qualified valuer and consultant, he has worked on major projects both internationally and domestically, working most recently in strategic asset management in the social housing sector. Educated at the London School of Economics (LSE), with a BSc in Economics, Nicholas went on to study for a Masters (MA) in Town and Country Planning from the University of Sheffield and a postgraduate diploma (PGDip) in Surveying from the University of Reading.
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Kara Tomes-Meek
Head of Sustainability
Kara is a senior sustainability leader with 15 years’ experience in the social housing sector. She specialises in developing sustainability strategies, biodiversity action plans, and ESG frameworks that support organisations on their journey toward low‑carbon, nature‑positive futures. Having studied Construction Management at the University for the Built Environment, Kara brings a deep understanding of the housing and infrastructure sector to her work. She has secured over £20 million in funding for large‑scale asset and retrofit programmes, and her contributions to the sector have been recognised through multiple industry awards.
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• We have developed board approved strategic asset management strategies adopted by several registered providers who in total own more than 20% of England's affordable homes across the full range of tenures, including general needs, affordable rent, shared ownership, keyworker, market rent and supported housing.
• We have delivered a range of environmental sustainability and decarbonisation strategies for housing providers, creating practical and deliverable plans that reduce emissions, enhance biodiversity, and embed environmental action across organisational operations.
• We have advised on the asset performance evaluation methodology used at nine registered providers who own over 300k affordable homes. This has involved developing the financial and non-financial assessment used and then helping to develop internal bespoke models as well as supporting the implementation of the market leading asset grading models.
• We have carried out detailed analysis of financial and staircasing data for over 25k shared ownership homes, helping to inform keep or sell decisions, identifying opportunities to encourage staircasing and supporting development appraisal assumptions.
• We have advised on tenanted acquisitions and disposals of affordable housing with a value in excess of £500m. This has involved advising on the initial business case and acting as ‘critical friend’, as well as providing financial models and wider transaction support.
• We have written successful bids totalling more than £12 million for decarbonisation and retrofit programmes. Using robust data and strategic insight to secure funding for large scale delivery.
Please contact us if you would like to discuss your specific requirements and we can devise a solution to meet your needs.
