A retirement property can help you live longer

A retirement property can help you live longer

Don’t wait until you have to move into a retirement village advises JANE SLADE, free yourself from stress and worry and move before you need to With more retirement developments and villages offering state-of-the-art facilities and spacious and modern accommodation,...
Royal Princess visits Bishopstoke Park retirement village

Royal Princess visits Bishopstoke Park retirement village

Princess Alexandra visits Anchor’s latest luxury retirement village Bishopstoke Park in Hampshire Bishopstoke Park will offer over 210 independent and assisted living apartments set in beautiful woodland with state-of-the art facilities as well as a 48-room...
Renaissance Retirement launches in Paignton

Renaissance Retirement launches in Paignton

Renaissance Retirement has unveiled plans for 38 new retirement apartments in the seaside town of Paignton, offering the standard of a four-star hotel Occupying the site of the former Paignton town library (which has since been relocated), 38 one and two-bedroom...
Communities for working retirees

Communities for working retirees

JANE SLADE discovers that you don’t have to retire to live in a retirement community, working retirees are welcome too Although he gave up his full-time job 15 years ago, Michael Jackson (pictured above) missed the daily routine – and at the age of 75 still heads off...
Why we should build more homes made of straw

Why we should build more homes made of straw

JANE SLADE discovers that straw houses make ideal affordable homes for retirees Paul Chatterton, a geography lecturer at Leeds University, spent a lifetime pondering how to make housing sustainable and affordable before setting up the 20-home Lilac co-housing project...
Walk your way to an active life at Cliveden Village

Walk your way to an active life at Cliveden Village

    Living surrounded by a walker’s paradise – 376 acres of National Trust parkland – makes Cliveden Village the ideal choice for a retirement property says JANE SLADE With over 110,000 members of the Ramblers Association across Great...