Care and Retirement Living
Our Planning and Socioeconomics teams have a wealth of experience in the healthcare and specialist housing sector.
Our broad, national view, coupled with our up-to-date local knowledge, will help you to navigate this sector’s increasingly complex planning process, as local authorities grapple with the policy expectations applicable to the different types of retirement care available.
By 2030, the UK’s elderly population is projected to reach 15.1 million with 22% aged 65, and over 3% aged 85+.
As the population ages, the demand for care increases and this places greater emphasis on the need for local authorities to support care home and retirement developments to speed up the rate of delivery to meet demand.
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Simon Elliott
Associate, Planning, Socioeconomics & WellbeingRelated articles
A Look at Senior Living
Wellbeing is now firmly on the national agenda and as the UK’s elderly population is projected to reach 15.1 million with 22% over 65 by 2030, alongside this edition of Local Plan Watch, Harriet Wooler and Steven Butler look at how senior living is being planned for across our patch.
Can Planning help to solve the social care crisis?
The COVID pandemic has brought the crisis in our Social Care system into sharp focus, and while much of the Government’s recent attention has been on reform of funding mechanisms, we ask what role the Planning System can play in helping to fix Social Care, and particularly Older People’s Housing.
12 million and growing – will the senior housing challenge finally receive some attention?
Almost 25% of the UK’s population is over 65 and by 2050, this proportion will have grown to an estimated 37%. While we have ambitious carbon neutral targets for this date, the planning for the care and housing of over a third of the population remains an area short in policy detail. Is this a tenable position for the new government who received votes from an estimated 60% of the UK’s over 65 population?