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Opportunity testing
Strategy and due diligence
Early site appraisals, planning due diligence, Local Plan promotion and advice on the route to consent.
Planning For Later Living
Specialist planning advice for retirement living, care homes and Integrated Retirement Community developments across the UK.
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Later living project experience
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Core capability areas
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Better choice
Better quality
Better outcomes
Planning support for projects that help deliver the right homes, care settings and communities for older people.
Nexus has a specialist Later Living team with experience delivering successful planning outcomes for retirement and care 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. This is underpinned by 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.
Retirement living
Planning advice for specialist accommodation and housing choices for older people.
Care homes
Strategy, evidence and applications for care settings and operator-led schemes.
Integrated Retirement Communities
Support for schemes combining homes, care, wellbeing and community facilities.
How we help
later living
projects
Clear planning advice across the key stages of later living development.
The service offer has been grouped into four practical capability areas so clients can quickly understand where Nexus can add value.
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Planning route
Applications and engagement
Pre-application advice, stakeholder engagement, planning applications and negotiation through determination.
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Robust case-making
Appeals and evidence
Appeal strategy, inquiry evidence, alternative sites assessments and support for challenging planning cases.
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Evidence base
Needs, health and research
Later Living Needs Assessments, Health Impact Assessments, policy insight and research-led sector support.
Sector clients
Trusted by
Trusted by
later living
operators
Nexus advises a growing client base across retirement living, care, Integrated Retirement Communities and specialist accommodation.
Our work supports developers, operators and care providers with planning strategy, evidence, applications, appeals and policy advice for later living schemes.
Later Living projects
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practice
Recent project work shows the breadth of our Later Living experience, from care home consents to appeal evidence and specialist planning strategy.
Nexus supports developers, operators and care providers with project-specific planning advice, public inquiry evidence, stakeholder engagement and the planning route to deliverable consent.
Later Living
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Aperdele Road, Leatherhead
Full planning permission secured for a new 66-bed care home on brownfield land, following pre-application engagement with the Council, local community and key stakeholders.
Client
Frontier Estates
Location
Leatherhead, Mole Valley District Council
Scale
66-bed care home, 0.5ha brownfield site
Outcome
Full planning permission secured
Later Living
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Chivas House
Planning approval secured through a two-stage strategy for the reuse and enhancement of a vacant office building as a 45-bed luxury care home within the Fulham Reach Conservation Area.
Client
KYN
Location
Chivas House, 72 Chancellors Road, Hammersmith
Scale
45-bed luxury care home, 0.17ha site, 5 parking spaces
Outcome
Planning approval secured
Later Living
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Land at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield
Planning evidence provided at Public Inquiry for a later living scheme on a previously developed Green Belt site, with the appeal allowed.
Client
Beechcroft Developments
Location
East of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Council
Scale
95 assisted living units and 75-bed care home on a 2.2ha site
Outcome
Appeal allowed
Sector leaders
Talk to
Talk to
the Later
Living team
Speak to one of our Later Living specialists about planning strategy, applications, appeals, needs evidence or research-led support for your next project.
The team supports clients across the South, Midlands and North, with advice tailored to retirement, care and Integrated Retirement Community developments.
London, South East and South West
Sarah Roe
Associate Director
Supporting clients with planning strategy, applications and sector-specific advice for later living, care and retirement accommodation.
Midlands and the North
Peter Tooher
Executive Director
Advising on complex later living planning matters, including strategic planning advice, planning evidence and appeal support.
Midlands and the North
Heather Lindley Clapp
Director
Providing planning advice for later living schemes, with a focus on clear strategy, local authority engagement and deliverable outcomes.
Speak to Nexus
Planning for later living
We would be pleased to discuss how Nexus Planning could support your plans.
Contact the team for planning strategy, applications, appeals, needs evidence and specialist advice for retirement, care and Integrated Retirement Community developments.
