NHC Housing Summit 2026
Navigating change - unlocking opportunity
Turn your housing priorities into clear strategies and practical action. Campbell Tickell helps you plan housing delivery, strengthen regulatory assurance and make informed decisions about homes, services and leadership.
Discuss your organisation’s priorities with James McHugh or Maggie Rafalowicz.
From strategy to delivery
Rising housing need, homelessness and temporary accommodation pressures, regulatory reform and financial constraints are creating significant challenges, while renewed investment and partnership opportunities are opening new routes to housing delivery.
We can help you turn these challenges and opportunities into clear strategies and practical action. Combining evidence, strategic insight and sector expertise with implementation support, we help you plan housing delivery, strengthen regulatory assurance and make informed decisions about homes, services and leadership.
Council housebuilding and affordable housing delivery
Turn housing ambition into a deliverable programme
Build a delivery programme around local need, land, viability, funding and organisational capacity. We help you choose the right combination of direct delivery, enabling, acquisitions and partnerships.
- Housing enabling strategies, delivery reviews and options appraisals
- Land and pipeline assessments, HRA and investment advice
- Delivery vehicles, development companies and partnership reviews
- Governance, capacity and development skills
Our approach: Understand need and capacity, decide on your delivery mix, then put governance, partnerships and an action plan in place.
Featured insight
Delivering the next generation of council housing
Practical perspectives on viability, skills, governance and delivery models.
Temporary accommodation and homelessness
Respond to pressure and build longer-term solutions
Bring evidence, operations, finance and delivery together to address temporary accommodation pressures. We help you assess demand and supply, plan investment and strengthen routes into settled housing.
- Temporary accommodation and homelessness strategies, forecasting and scenario modelling
- Portfolio, supply and acquisition reviews
- Move-on, allocations and supported housing pathways
- Performance, governance, financial assurance and benchmarking
Temporary Accommodation Network
The Temporary Accommodation Network, brought together by Campbell Tickell and Devonshires, brings commissioners and other organisations together to share innovation and good practice. Explore the Network.
Featured resource
CT Brief Temporary Accommodation Network special edition
Perspectives on housing supply, quality, partnerships, finance and homelessness policy.
Social housing regulation and consumer standards
Strengthen assurance and prepare for scrutiny
Understand regulatory expectations, assess your position and demonstrate how resident experience shapes your services. We help you turn assurance findings into practical improvements.
- Briefings for boards, councillors, staff and residents
- Consumer standards self-assessment, assurance validation and frameworks
- Risk-based deep dives, document reviews and improvement plans
- Inspection preparation, rehearsal and coaching
Explore our social housing regulation support
Featured insight
What can councils learn from the social housing regulation grades to date?
Assurance, data quality and equitable outcomes for residents.
Supported housing and homelessness
Develop services around evidence and lived experience
Understand demand, review provision and agree priorities with your partners and the people who use your services. We support councils, housing associations, commissioners, charities and care and support providers.
- Homelessness reviews, rough sleeping strategies and supported housing needs assessments
- Demand and supply forecasting, strategies and delivery pipelines
- Service evaluations and older people’s, sheltered and extra care housing reviews
- Partner and lived-experience engagement, and preparation for supported housing regulation
Explore our supported housing and homelessness services
Featured insight
12 trends shaping the not-for-profit, charitable and public sectors in 2026
Perspectives on homelessness, supported housing regulation and the wider housing system.
Asset management, investment and stock rationalisation
Make informed decisions about homes and investment
Balance safety, quality, resident outcomes and long-term financial resilience. We help you assess stock performance and decide where to invest, acquire or dispose of homes.
- Asset strategies, stock performance, retrofit and investment options
- Procurement, delivery arrangements and portfolio sale preparation
- Acquisitions, financial modelling and bidding strategies
- Transaction management and integration of acquired portfolios
Explore our stock rationalisation services
Featured insight
Stock rationalisation: top tips
Due diligence, portfolio acquisition, integration, governance and risk.
Private rented housing, partnerships and delivery models
Choose the right route for your organisation and place
Assess your delivery options against local need, funding, land, capacity and risk. Campbell Tickell helps you explore:
- Direct delivery, housing enabling and acquisitions
- Registered provider and developer partnerships
- Joint ventures, delivery vehicles and investment partnerships
- Private rented sector strategy within housing, homelessness and temporary accommodation planning
Featured insight
For-profit registered providers: key considerations for effective governance
Recruitment and interim leadership
Find the people you need to deliver change
Put the leadership, specialist expertise and capacity behind your plans. Our recruitment approach combines rigorous processes, candidate care and market insight with an understanding of your organisation.
- Executive and senior leadership recruitment
- Board and non-executive appointments
- Specialist housing and corporate roles
- Interim leadership and management capacity
Latest housing insights
Explore practical perspectives on housing delivery, regulation and portfolio decisions.
- Why we need housebuilders to make a profit: housing delivery viability and development economics.
- NHF Code of Conduct 2026: accountability, culture and resident focus.
- Six key considerations when integrating a new housing portfolio: resident communication, data and operational readiness.
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