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| Planning for an ageing population | | Author(s) | Gary Day |
| Journal title | Housing & Planning Review, vol 53, no 2, April/May 1998 |
| Pages | pp 21-22 |
| Keywords | Sheltered housing ; Attitudes to the old of general public. |
| Annotation | The assumption that planning for an ageing population through the provision of specialised purpose-built accommodation (i.e. sheltered housing) results in an in-migration of older people is unsupported by the facts. Information supplied in Anchor Housing Trust's 1991 report `Age file - the facts' suggested a minimum requirement of 10,000 new units of sheltered housing per year. Macarthy and Stone, the main specialist builders of private sheltered housing has built only 6,500 units since 1991. Need and demand for sheltered housing thus continues to outweigh supply, a state of affairs which is unlikely to change unless this form of accommodation is given due consideration in determining planning applications. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980511205 A |
| Classmark | KLA: TOB |
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