ageing population
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29.01.2021affordable housing | ageing population | demographics | Demographics & Population Growth | East of England | house prices | Housing
An inspector has approved plans for 65 homes in Babergh, contrary to the council's spatial plan – agreeing with the appellant’s argument that the need to rebalance the area’s ageing population justified the...
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17.04.2020
An inspector has cited highway safety and visual character in refusing permission for a 63-bed care home in Maidstone, ruling that the council had enough time remaining in its current local plan period to...
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20.02.2020ageing population | dementia | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly care | extra care | Housing | West Midlands
An inspector has rejected plans for a major elderly care village in the Meriden Gap near Solihull, citing green belt rules which state that material considerations must 'clearly' – not marginally – outweigh...
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24.01.2020affordable housing | ageing population | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Housing | paragraph 79 | recovered appeal | Rural | UK | viability
A round-up of planning appeals: 18 January-24 January, 2020
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24.01.2020ageing population | agricultural land | dementia | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly care | hearing | South East
An inspector has cited Arun’s rapidly ageing population and ‘extremely limited’ availability of specialist dementia care in approving plans for a 64-bed facility in the area, despite its technical conflict...
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05.11.2019accessibility | accessible housing | ageing population | Demographics & Population Growth | Housing | UK
The UK faces a crisis in suitable housing for older and disabled people unless the next government ensures all new homes are accessible and adaptable.
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06.09.2019accessibility | ageing population | Community Infrastructure | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | North West | retirement village
Plans for a retirement village north of Preston that would accommodate more than 200 over-55s have been rejected, after an inspector found that residents would have ‘limited opportunities for integration...
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23.08.2019ageing population | building design | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | elderly | South East
An inspector rejected Aylesbury Vale council's arguments that a proposed extension to a bungalow would preclude its occupation by elderly people, before dismissing permission on design grounds.
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26.02.2019
A proposed four-storey care home in Edinburgh has been turned down in light of the council’s policy aim to ‘move away from an over-reliance on institutional care and towards support in the home”.
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12.02.2019ageing population | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | extra care housing | Housing | South West
Plans for 30 retirement bungalows in Cornwall would constitute a standard residential use, an inspector has ruled, despite the appellant’s plan to restrict their occupancy to people who need at least two...
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