What we provide
Revolutionising affordable social housing, one small site at a time.
No one should face the unimaginable dilemma of who is left on the streets and who gets a safe place to stay at night. Yet that’s the excruciating daily reality for many housing officers.
We set up Cornerstone Place to provide a better, more ethical way for local authorities to meet their housing need. Our certified social enterprise is transforming social housing provision by delivering small-site housing projects at cost with full transparency. This provides local authorities with affordable permanent, high-quality, sustainable homes for those in most need.
Put an end to selling off your land and buildings. Instead, we’ll provide you with income-generating assets that will serve your communities proudly for generations to come.
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About us
We create ethical and sustainable social housing for Local Authorities, Charities and Registered Providers.
Cornerstone Place is a Certified Social Enterprise founded in 2019 by Richard Kennedy and David Ball, after David witnessed first-hand the damage and devastation that homelessness causes when his own father spent several years living on the streets. That experience drives our purpose in building a social enterprise that reduces the suffering of people and their families facing similar challenges.
David, with 20+ years’ experience in the property industry, and co-founder Richard Kennedy, with 25+ years of not-for-profit, social investment, corporate and hospitality experience, have developed a unique, game-changing approach to social housing which is already driving impactful change..
We set up Cornerstone Place to provide a better, more ethical way for local authorities to meet their housing need. Our certified social enterprise is transforming social housing provision by delivering small-site housing projects at cost with full transparency. This provides local authorities with affordable permanent, high-quality, sustainable homes for those in most need.
Put an end to selling off your land and buildings. Instead, we’ll provide you with income-generating assets that will serve your communities proudly for generations to come.
Our Social Mission
Cornerstone Place creates 100% social housing for 0% profit.
We make solving your social housing crisis a reality. Unlocking underused sites, we partner with local authorities, charities and registered providers to deliver net zero homes for people in housing need.
Our focus is on putting the property assets into the hands of the impact makers, creating what we call Impact First Social Housing which is specifically designed to meet unmet local housing needs. We repurpose private sector property development strategies for the social sector, underpinned by bank-grade due diligence to deliver sustainable social impact. This results in stronger balance sheets and increased unrestricted income for our partners.
But more than that it results in high-quality homes which offer a far superior quality of life for the residents and their families.
Our newly built homes are constructed using Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and are net zero in operation. We also incorporate building management technology to check for potentially dangerous levels of damp, volatile organic compounds, energy usage and much more. We can achieve this because we are driven by impact, not financial return. This is a fundamental characteristic of being a social enterprise which allows us to focus on delivering the very best quality homes without the need to deliver a return to shareholders.