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PILING: G M Piling Ltd Andrew Stimpson
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gmpiling.co.uk GROUND WORKER FRAME CONTRACTOR: Southern Concrete Mark Wells
MarkWells@blanchardwells.co.uk SCAFFOLD: Liddiard scaffolding Rob Liddiard
rob@liddscaff.com BRICKWORK: Phoenix brickwork Jim Heavey
jim@phenixbs.co.uk CLADDING / SFS / RENDER: Jessella Nik Vincent
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jessella.co.uk ROOF: MAB Roofing Micah Blowers
micah@mabroofing.co.uk DRYLINER: R K Silver Anthony Joyce
tjbarc@hotmail.com CARPENTER: Vali Carpentry Valentin
vali@valisolutions.co.uk ELECTRICIAN: Carter Electrics Jon Carter
jc@carter-electrical.co.uk PLUMBER:G P Plumbing Ky Oliveira
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derek@mtlbuildanddecorate.co.uk MASTIC: Mantec Rebecca Dunn
rebecca@mantech-sealants.co.uk CLEANER: Lynkcs cleaning Chris Hawkes
chris@lynkcs.co.uk LANDSCAPER: Inhurst landscaping Debbie Williams Inhurst
debbiew@inhurst.co.uk FENCER: Stetons Tony Badger
tony@steton.co.uk LIGHTNING PROTECTION: Tarrant Adrian Tarrant
lightningconductors@hotmail.com LIFTS: Orona Lifts Charlotte Sherwood
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these facilitate a communal lifestyle, the onsite bistro restaurant serving freshly prepared meals daily for the residents to enjoy a social meal.
This sense of social life is accentuated by a guest suite, for when owner’s friends and family come to stay, and a wellness suite and salon for when homeowners would like to get their hair cut, or to enjoy a range of treatments from within the comfort of the development. The wellbeing suite is host to a variety of professionals including hairdressers and therapists, and is equipped with the necessary salon accessories and a therapy table.
Alongside the internal features offered, residents are encouraged and enabled to leave the development, with lifestyle support provided if residents want to take a shopping trip or spend the evening at the theatre, for example.
All of these amenities are important assets for the elderly, and, as Martin detailed, with such aspects of life catered for, “they can relax in the knowledge that there is someone there day and night should they need any assistance.”
TACKLING THE HOUSING CRISIS With the project now completed, Martin reflected on why he believes the creation of high quality communal housing for the elderly is more important than ever: “The facts are that there are currently 11.8 million people aged 65 and over, rising to 17.3 million by 2037. One in four say they hope to downsize before they hit old age, yet there are only c.162,000 units of
specialist retirement housing for homeowners being built. These demographic changes are bringing a new housing crisis to the fore.” He commented that many older people
are trapped between living in large family houses “which are no longer fit for their needs,” and are moving into care homes before they really need to, or are even ready for round-the-clock help. “This under supply of retirement housing is thanks to Government red tape and a plethora of funding issues,” he said. Martin concluded on how McCarthy & Stone is partly driven by an urge to tackle a wider problem of undersupply: “Not only does building more specialist retire- ment homes enable older people to live in more suitable accommodation, but it would free up family homes currently being under-occupied by the millions of older people who want to downsize, and allow these homes to come back to the market for younger people.” Being awarded a 5-star rating in customer satisfaction for thirteen consecutive years via the House Builders Federation (HBF) New Homes Survey, plus the finding in the survey that 90 per cent of its homeowners saying that moving to one of its developments has improved their quality of life, the developer is succeeding where customers are concerned. Since 1977, it has built over 54,000 apartments, and Augustus House is set to continue this legacy with 59 more apartments that will make a small, but high quality dent in the backlog of specialist housing nationally.
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