elderly housing
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14.12.2020
Nine in 10 people believe that the government should improve and create more housing options for older people, indicate the results of a survey.
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07.12.2020Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | England | Housing | Planning Law | Retirement community | UK | Use classes
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...
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07.05.2020Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | Health | living conditions | overlooking | privacy | retirement | South East
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.
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16.09.2019
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.
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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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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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11.01.2019building design | climate change | conservation area | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | Environmental | global warming | Heritage | solar gain | South West
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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26.09.2018chief planner | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | Housing | rounding off | South West
Plans for nine bungalows for people over 55 on the edge of Liskeard, Cornwall, would not represent 'rounding off', an inspector has ruled, notwithstanding the Chief Planning Officer's note on the...
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14.08.2018
The government has announced that thousands of extra homes designed for people with disabilities, mental health issues and older people who need extra support will be created over the next three years with an additional £76 million a year.
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30.07.2018County Councils Network | Demographics & Population Growth | elderly housing | England | Housing | retirement homes
County councils have called on the government to ensure that its social housing green paper encourages planning reforms address the ‘dearth of retirement and supported housing’ in the country.
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