Strategy and due diligence
Early site appraisals, planning due diligence, Local Plan promotion and advice on the route to securing planning permission.
Planning for Later Living
Delivering a better choice and quality of housing for older people.
Better choice.
Better quality.
Better outcomes.
Planning support for projects that help deliver the right homes, care settings and communities for older people.
We are a specialist Later Living team with experience delivering successful planning outcomes for retirement, care and Integrated Retirement Community developments across the UK.
We combine an understanding of the planning challenges faced in securing permission for these developments with the strategy required to overcome them. Our advice is practical, commercially astute and grounded in detailed knowledge of planning policy and how later living developments operate.
Why it matters
A clear planning case can help unlock high-quality accommodation, care choice and better health and wellbeing outcomes.
How we help
later living projects
Clear planning advice across the key stages of later living development.
Our support covers early strategy, applications, appeals, evidence and research-led case-making.
Applications and engagement
Pre-application advice, stakeholder engagement, planning applications and negotiation through determination.
Appeals and evidence
Appeal strategy, inquiry evidence, alternative sites assessments and support for challenging planning cases.
Needs, health and research
Later Living Needs Assessments, Health Impact Assessments, policy insight and research-led sector support.
Care homes, retirement accommodation and Integrated Retirement Community developments
We advise an established and growing client base delivering care homes, retirement accommodation and Integrated Retirement Community developments.
Our work supports developers, operators, care providers and local authorities with planning strategy, evidence, applications, appeals and policy advice for later living schemes.
Talk to the Later Living team
We support clients across London, the South, Midlands and North, with advice tailored to care homes, retirement accommodation and Integrated Retirement Community developments.
Midlands and the North
Heather Lindley Clapp
Director
BA (Hons) MPlan MRTPI
Later Living
Projects
Recent project work demonstrates our experience securing planning permission for new care and retirement developments, alongside appeal evidence and specialist planning strategy.
We secured full planning permission for a new 66-bed care home on a brownfield former school site.
Client
Frontier Estates
Location
Leatherhead, Mole Valley District Council
We provided Public Inquiry evidence for a later living scheme on a previously developed Green Belt site.
Client
Beechcroft Developments
Location
East of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Council
We secured planning approval to reuse a vacant riverside office building as a 45-bed luxury care home.
Client
KYN
Location
Hammersmith, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
We supported the appeal case for a retirement living scheme on grey belt land.
Client
Beechcroft Developments
Location
Shenley, Hertfordshire, Hertsmere Borough Council
Alongside Nexus Analytics and Research, we prepared a Specialised Housing Study to evidence need for older people and people with disabilities.
Client
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
Location
Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire
We secured a resolution to grant planning permission for an 85-bed registered care home on a brownfield site within a sensitive heritage context.
Client
Care Concern Group
Location
Epsom, Surrey