elderly housing

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...

Appeal: Cornwall retirement housing would not be 'rounding off'

26.09.2018

Matt Moody

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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Government pledges cash to support people to live independently

14.08.2018

Laura Edgar

adaptation | disability | elderly housing | England | Housing

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.

Social housing green paper should address ‘dearth’ of retirement housing

30.07.2018

Laura Edgar

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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