elderly housing

West Byfleet / Retirement Villages Group

Retirement developer plans £2bn investment in new communities

13.04.2021

Laura Edgar

Retirement Villages Group (RVG) has set out its plan to invest £2 billion investment in its latest sites in West Byfleet and Chester, as well as more than 40 more new sites across the UK.

Rethinking attitudes key to planning for an ageing population

15.03.2021

Will Bax

How is the way the built environment is planned keeping pace with a healthier, elderly population, writes Will Bax

Older people's housing choices in London / iStock-805085398

Not enough housing for older people in capital, warns think tank

23.02.2021

Laura Edgar

There should be a ‘stronger and more coordinated approach’ to building homes that suit older people living in London, according to a think tank.

Survey: Housing for older people must be improved

14.12.2020

Laura Edgar

ARCO | elderly housing | Housing | housing for older people | UK

Nine in 10 people believe that the government should improve and create more housing options for older people, indicate the results of a survey.

Retirement communities: Is it time for a new use classification?

07.12.2020

Laura Edgar

Retirement communities seem to sit uncomfortably between two use classifications, making it hard to obtain viable planning permissions. Should the planning system have a special use classification just for...

Appeal: Six-storey retirement block allowed next to existing gardens

07.05.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 61 sheltered apartments can go ahead in Camberley, an inspector has ruled, deciding that an exception to the council's building design guidance was justified.

30,000 later living homes needed a year

16.09.2019

Laura Edgar

elderly housing | Housing | housing for older people | UK

Former Treasury economist Chris Walker has called for 30,000 later living homes to be built each year as people in Britain are living for longer.

Appeal: Lancashire retirement village would be an ‘isolated enclave’

06.09.2019

Matt Moody

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...

Appeal: ‘Extra care’ bungalows would be class C3 use, rules inspector

12.02.2019

Matt Moody

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...

Appeal: Retirement flats ‘not adaptable to climate change’

11.01.2019

Matt Moody

The south-facing orientation and single-aspect design of a proposed retirement complex could put its elderly residents at risk of uncomfortably high temperatures as a result of solar gain, an inspector has...

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