The rough guide to building a retirement community

Legal & General’s later living business Inspired Villages has six operational retirement communities, and a further 14 sites in various stages of planning and construction. Neal Dale presents a guide to designing high quality retirement villages.

Legal & General’s later living business Inspired Villages has six operational retirement communities, with a further 14 sites in various stages of planning and construction. Here, development director Neal Dale presents a guide to designing high quality retirement villages

Those of us involved in the retirement living sector have been campaigning loudly for many years about the need for more specialist homes to accommodate our rapidly ageing population. The events of this very strange and challenging year have, however, demonstrated more starkly the quality of life difference between those living within the support of a retirement community and those in homes that are too cumbersome to handle, and far from friends and family. 

Covid-19 has meant the vulnerable across society have had to self-isolate. We are very proud that for Inspired Villages this has not meant our residents have been isolated.

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