At Torsion Care, we make finding and securing land for care and retirement living developments simple. We use our expertise & experience, industry connections, and the latest technology to identify great sites. We then work side by side with our operating and funding partners to bring these sites to life and help meet the growing demand for specialist care and retirement beds throughout the country.
If you’ve got land to sell or want to collaborate, please get in touch.
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Chris Burns Investment & Acquisition Director
Torsion Care are experts in building modern care homes and retirement living apartments for operators across the UK.
Torsion Care offers a complete turn of key service for operators.
Our team are experts at finding land, obtaining planning permission, and constructing care facilities in a partnering approach with operators and investors.
Care is a constantly changing market in which we will lead, not follow others.
Land Requirements
Site Area
1 - 5 acre sites considered
Residence
Individual care home/ retirement living sites as well as mixed use schemes
A minimum of 30,000 population within 3-miles Sites
Planning
Sites with or without planning
Contract
Fast decision making leading to a quick exchange of contracts.
Population Density
Greenfield and brownfield sites are considered Agent
NORTH WEST & WALES
Competitive agents fees paid on completion.
Seb Morris Land Manager
Eve Chapman Land Manager NORTH EAST & MIDLANDS
Harriet Spain Associate Land Director
SOUTH
Lauren Baker Assistant Land Manager
SOUTH
SOUTH
Target Area - Locations
Harriet Spain
Associate Land Director
HarrietSpain@torsioncare.co.uk
07900 730 659
SOUTH
Lauren Baker
Assistant Land Manager
LaurenBaker@torsioncare.co.uk
07507 021 062
Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Bedfordshire
Hertfordshire
Suffolk
Essex
Kent
East Sussex
West Sussex
Surrey
Greater London
Berkshire
Hampshire
Wiltshire
Dorset
Somerset
Devon
Cornwall
NORTH EAST & MIDLANDS
Eve Chapman
Land Manager
EveChapman@torsioncare.co.uk
07714 019 974
Target Area - Locations
Northumberland
Durham
North Yorkshire
East Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
Derbyshire
Nottinghamshire
Lincolnshire
Leicestershire
Staffordshire
West Midlands
Worcestershire
Warwickshire
Northamptonshire
Cambridgeshire
Norfolk
NORTH WEST & WALES
Target Area - Locations
Cumbria
Lancashire
Greater
Manchester
Merseyside
Cheshire
Staffordshire
Shropshire
Cheshire
Gwynedd
Clwyd
Dyfed
Powys
Glamorganshire
Gwent
Seb Morris
Land Manager
SebMorris@torsioncare.co.uk
07540 288231
Case Study
York
North Yorkshire
PROJECT OVERVIEW
66-BED CARE HOME
Key Site Constraints
The site was a brownfield development site that sat within the general extent of the green belt. Occupied by a 3-storey Victorian laundry building “Blue Beck House”, which was considered a non-designated heritage asset, and which was demolished as part of the proposal to facilitate the new 3-storey 72 bed care home with car parking and landscaping.
As part of the site works Blue Beck Drive which served the neighbouring NHS property, Clifton House was diverted.
The scale and mass of the new care home building was given careful consideration to ensure that the design and material palette were sympathetic to the surrounding buildings and area.
Seller: NHS Property Services
Operating Partner: Tanglewood Care Homes
Funding Partner: Aedifica
Case Study
Bromsgrove Worcestershire
PROJECT OVERVIEW
72-BED CARE HOME
Key Site Constraints
The site was originally The Mount School, an education facility and non-designated heritage asset, which ceased use in the late 19th Century. The site sits within the green belt, and our proposal was to demolish the existing building for the benefit of a 72-bed care home with new car park and landscaping.
Within the design, consideration was given to the topography of the site with a rise of more than 6m across the front of the site to the rear. This resulted in the design for a split-level site with a 2-level car park, a 3 and a half storey care home which also required a 4.5m retaining wall at the top of the site.
After initially having our planning application refused, we secured our development through the appeal process.
Operating Partner: Tanglewood Care Homes
Funding Partner: Octopus Healthcare Fund
Case Study
Salts Mill
Shipley, West Yorkshire
PROJECT OVERVIEW
72-BED CARE HOME
Key Site Constraints
The site was originally of industrial use and home to multiple single storey units, fronting the Leeds-Liverpool canal. The site covers 2.11 acres which was ideal for our proposed development of a 66-bed care home (C2) and 56 retirement living apartments, made up of 1 and 2 bed apartments.
The design of the development was key, given the site sits within the Saltaire World Heritage Buffer Zone; the care home was designed with a more traditional feel using a mixture of render, brick and natural stone with a natural slate pitched roof, whist the retirement living scheme had a contemporary design with buff brick, standing seam cladding and a flat roof.
Care Home: Turnkey Development to St. Mary’s Care Homes
Funding Partner: Aedifica
Retirement Living: Turnkey Development to Housing 21.
Funding Partner: Hampshire Trust Bank, Capital Stackers, Homes England
Case Study
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
PROJECT OVERVIEW
73-BED CARE HOME
Key Site Constraints
The site had previously been used as a car dealership with a showroom, workshops and offices which included the former United Reform Church, which had been converted for use as storage and office space. The site, at 1.68 acres, is a gateway site on the edge of Lincoln which fronted onto High Street and Sincil Dyke.
The development repurposed this brownfield site into a 73-bed care home, 30 retirement living apartments made up of 1 and 2 beds, and converted the former United Reform Church into 5-flats. The remediation of the site posed the most challenging aspect of this project, given that during the archaeological excavations our discoveries included the early course of the Sincil Dyke, medieval revetment wall remains, a large boundary ditch, and structures from medieval and post-medieval periods, such as walls, road surfaces, kilns, wells, and a semicircular defensive bastion.
Artefacts recovered included medieval to early modern pottery, coins, tokens, a buckle, spindle whorls, whetstones, and two possible medieval stone shot, with minimal Roman and prehistoric finds.
The more recent use of the site as a petrol filling station and then latterly the car showroom and garage had meant that the site had widespread contamination from petrochemicals and other hydrocarbons. As part of the project Torsion Care were keen to ensure that the site was remediated in full to protect those building the development, the end users of the development and ensure that any contamination from the site could not leach into the adjacent waterway, Sincil Dyke.
Care Home: Turnkey Development to St. Mary’s Care Homes
Funding Partner: Aedifica
Our continuous growth enhances our activity in the market, and as always, we are constantly looking to add to our growing portfolio of Care Homes and Retirement Living developments throughout the country.
