Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 11023
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: McCarthy and Stone Retirement Lifestyles Ltd
Agent: The Planning Bureau
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Paragraph 214 states “Specialist housing will provide fully self-contained homes to people who may need care at the time that they take up occupation, or may develop a need for care over a period” and then goes onto consider how the Council defines such housing referring to levels of care that would be typically found in extra care accommodation. This fails to recognise that there are a wide range of housing types for older people in response to a wide range of varying needs. PPG guidance “housing for older and disabled people” at para 10 states that this extends from simple age restricted accommodation and retirement housing with little or no care, through to care and nursing homes. The benefits of all forms of such accommodation are well recognised and the HEDNA generally recognises a need for many forms of such housing. The paragraph in seeking to define older persons housing therefore takes a far too narrow approach .
That Para 214 be amended wholesale to recognise the wide range of specialised housing for older people, that this is not just restricted to housing “with care” and that all forms of such housing brings with it a range of benefits not least in addressing loneliness, isolation and assisting downsizing
4 representations proposing amends to Policy 4E and supporting text