elderly care

Appeal: Care home would create 'sense of being unable to leave'

09.08.2019

An inspector has blocked plans for a new care home near Altrincham, ruling that the scheme's design and location would not enable residents to 'live as independent a life as possible', contrary to national...

Appeal: Accessibility works at listed almshouses rejected

07.06.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has turned down a plan to install dormers to the rear of a terrace of listed almshouses for elderly women in Wandsworth, which would have provided toilet facilities at the same level as bedrooms...

Appeals round-up: Elderly home support policy weighs against care home; Shipping container café allowed despite ‘design shortcomings’

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 23 February-1 March, 2019

Appeal: Elderly home support policy weighs against care home

26.02.2019

Matt Moody

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”.

Artist's impression / Newcastle University

Newcastle University unveils major hospital redevelopment plan

13.02.2019

Huw Morris

elderly care | Health | Newcastle | Newcastle University | North East

Newcastle University is proposing a significant redevelopment of the former general hospital into a centre of excellence for care of older people after buying the site.

Appeals round-up: Tourist accommodation at alpaca farm would be inappropriate; Golf netting refused for green belt harm despite safety concerns

14.12.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 December-14 December 2018

Appeal: Care home allowed on site allocated to recreation use

18.09.2018

Matt Moody

A 64-bed care home has been approved on land reserved for ‘recreation use’ in the local development plan, after an inspector found the Bicester area’s need for care facilities to be a...

Appeal: Whiteley Village expansion blocked despite ‘urgent need’

13.09.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for 60 new almshouses and a 40-unit care home at an Edwardian retirement village in Surrey, despite the 'urgent and growing' local need for accommodation for the...

Appeal: County council intervention prevents care home redevelopment

30.08.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans to replace a Chichester care home with six houses, citing figures that project an increase in the number of people suffering from dementia.

Appeal: Hertfordshire sheltered housing scheme refused for poor design

11.05.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans to replace four large homes in Kings Langley with a 40-unit sheltered housing block, concluding that the scheme ‘would not amount to good design’.

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