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Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025

Ymatebydd: McCarthy Stone and Churchill Living

Asiant : The Planning Bureau Ltd

Proposed policies need to reflect the urgency and ‘critical’ need for Older Persons’ Housing as well as recognising the many additional benefits delivered when such housing is developed in an area.

RECOMMENDATION:
The updated plan should include a specific and dedicated policy supporting the provision of housing for older people. The policy should acknowledge the additional value gained by the provision of dedicated housing for older people which facilitates right sizing in the housing market as well as the potential to achieve significant savings for healthcare together with the social and economic value added to the lives of older people in the area.
The following is a suggested form of wording which may be useful as a starting position for the council to draft a dedicated policy.
“The Council will encourage the provision of specialist housing for older people across all tenures in sustainable locations.
The Council aims to ensure that older people can secure and sustain independence in a home appropriate to their circumstances by providing appropriate housing choice,
particularly retirement housing and Extra Care Housing/Housing with Care. The Council will, through the identification of sites, allowing for windfall developments,
and / or granting of planning consents in sustainable locations, provide for the development of retirement accommodation, residential care homes, close care, Extra
Care and assisted care housing and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. The council recognises the significant health and wider economic benefits associated
with the provision of dedicated housing for older people and will strongly encourage new provision of such housing in sustainable locations”