
Chris Phillips
ChairFormer Chairman of Places for People and of Living Real Estate Investment Trust. Leads the board.
About us
Maple Homes provides good-quality affordable rented homes for people on local authority housing registers. We are preparing our application to register with the Regulator of Social Housing, and our governance is being built around the Regulator’s standards from day one.
Safe, secure and affordable homes, with tenants at the heart of every decision.
People nominated from local authority housing registers, under each council’s allocations scheme.
With councils across England.
Our board and leadership

Former Chairman of Places for People and of Living Real Estate Investment Trust. Leads the board.

Chair of Audit and Risk at L&Q and Chair of MHS Homes Group.

17 years as a property principal and around 800 homes transacted.

Founding Director of Pillar; around £4 billion of real estate delivery.
We are appointing further independent non-executive directors so that independent members form a majority of the board. We are committed to a diverse board that reflects the communities we serve, with a broad range of skills and experience — including people with lived experience as tenants.
Governance
How our board makes decisions, and how tenants, councils and the Regulator of Social Housing can hold us to account.
The board is responsible for our strategy, for meeting the Regulator’s standards and for the safety and quality of every home.
Chaired by Nigel Hopkins, it oversees financial controls, risk management and assurance on landlord health and safety.
We adopt and report against a recognised code of governance for housing providers, and review the board’s effectiveness every year.
A thirty-year business plan, stress-tested against downside scenarios, so we are financially strong enough to serve tenants for decades.
We set clear value for money targets and report our performance in our annual accounts.
We publish the Regulator’s Tenant Satisfaction Measures every year and give tenants a real say in how we are run.