Later
Living
Planning for an ageing population.
Delivering a better choice and quality of housing for older people.
We help clients secure successful planning outcomes for retirement, care and Integrated Retirement Community developments across the UK.
Needs-led evidence
Need assessments, data analysis and policy support for later living accommodation.
Planning strategy
Due diligence, planning appraisals, applications, appeals and Local Plan support.
Sector understanding
Retirement housing, housing with care and care homes across the UK.
Specialist 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 extensive experience delivering successful planning outcomes for new retirement and care developments across the UK.
We combine an understanding of the unique planning challenges faced in securing permission for these types of developments with the strategy required to overcome such challenges. This is underpinned by detailed knowledge of relevant planning policy and the way in which later living developments operate.
Our team has a strong and growing client base consisting of private sector retirement, care and Integrated Retirement Community developers and operators. This is built on our reputation for reliable, commercially astute and sector-specific advice.
A clear planning case can help unlock high-quality accommodation, care choice and better health and wellbeing outcomes.
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Planning support across the full later living process
From early site testing to appeals, needs evidence and thought leadership, our Later Living team helps clients move forward with clarity.
We support retirement, care and Integrated Retirement Community developers and operators with commercially focused planning advice, robust evidence and a clear understanding of how later living schemes operate.
Site appraisals and due diligence
Early planning advice to test site suitability, identify constraints and shape the route to consent.
Discuss this serviceLocal Plan promotion
Strategic support for promoting sites and responding to emerging policy and evidence requirements.
Discuss this servicePre-application advice
Coordinated engagement with officers, stakeholders and technical teams before submission.
Discuss this servicePlanning applications
Application strategy, submission management and negotiation through determination.
Discuss this servicePlanning appeals
Appeal strategy and evidence support for challenging sites, refused schemes and public inquiries.
Discuss this serviceAlternative sites assessments
Evidence-led assessment of competing locations, site availability and planning suitability.
Discuss this serviceLater Living Needs Assessments
Demographic and market evidence to establish current and future need for later living accommodation.
Discuss this serviceHealth Impact Assessments
Evidence on health, wellbeing and social impacts to support the planning benefits case.
Discuss this serviceThought leadership
Sector insight, policy commentary and research-led outputs that help frame the case for later living.
Discuss this serviceClear evidence can be the difference between a proposal being understood and a proposal being resisted.
Our planning and analytics work can be translated into accessible outputs that help decision-makers, project teams and stakeholders understand need, impact, context and benefits.
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Data dashboards
Interactive or static data views that summarise demand, need, demographic change and local context.
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Clear visual summaries that explain the ageing population, housing need and planning benefits.
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Professional report outputs for needs assessments, health impact work and evidence base studies.
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Visual evidence to show population trends, accommodation supply, demand and impact over time.
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Spatial outputs that help explain site context, catchments, accessibility and local need.
View exampleOur Later Living team supports public and private sector clients across evidence, strategy, applications and appeals.
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Specialised Housing Study
Local authority evidence base study identifying housing requirements for older and disabled people.
Former Police and Ambulance Station
Full planning application for an 85-bed registered care home in a sensitive heritage context.
Brighton Road, Hassocks
New care home outside the settlement boundary, progressed through application and resubmission.
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We advise a growing client base across retirement living, care, integrated retirement communities and specialist accommodation.
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Frontier Estates
Care home developer
KYN
Later living operator
Kori Developments
Development partner
Care Concern Group
Care provider
Chiltern Care
Care operator
Beechcroft
Retirement living
Birchgrove
Housing with care
Lifecare Residences
Integrated retirement community
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We would be pleased to discuss how Nexus Planning could support your plans.
Speak to one of our Later Living specialists about planning strategy, applications, appeals, needs evidence or research-led support for your next project.
Our Later Living specialists combine planning strategy, evidence and sector understanding.
Contact the relevant regional lead or speak to Nexus Analytics and Research for needs assessments, health impact evidence and specialist research support.
Sarah Roe
Associate Director
Adrian Kearley
Consultant
Peter Tooher
Executive Director
Heather Lindley Clapp
Director
Evidence-led support for later living needs, health impact and local plan evidence.
NAR works alongside the wider planning team to produce later living needs assessments, specialised housing studies, economic impact assessments and health impact evidence.
