Nexus Planning

Later
Living

Planning for an ageing population.

Specialist sector team

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.

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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.

At Nexus Later Living
Better choice Better quality Better outcomes

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.

Why it matters

A clear planning case can help unlock high-quality accommodation, care choice and better health and wellbeing outcomes.

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Need clear planning advice for a later living project?

Our team can help with early strategy, needs evidence, applications, appeals and project-specific later living advice.

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What we do

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.

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Site appraisals and due diligence

Early planning advice to test site suitability, identify constraints and shape the route to consent.

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Local Plan promotion

Strategic support for promoting sites and responding to emerging policy and evidence requirements.

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Pre-application advice

Coordinated engagement with officers, stakeholders and technical teams before submission.

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Planning applications

Application strategy, submission management and negotiation through determination.

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Planning appeals

Appeal strategy and evidence support for challenging sites, refused schemes and public inquiries.

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Alternative sites assessments

Evidence-led assessment of competing locations, site availability and planning suitability.

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Later Living Needs Assessments

Demographic and market evidence to establish current and future need for later living accommodation.

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Health Impact Assessments

Evidence on health, wellbeing and social impacts to support the planning benefits case.

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Thought leadership

Sector insight, policy commentary and research-led outputs that help frame the case for later living.

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Example outputs
Evidence made clear

Clear 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.

Placeholder assets

Replace these placeholders with cleansed dashboards, report covers, infographics, charts and maps when final examples are available.

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Data dashboards

Interactive or static data views that summarise demand, need, demographic change and local context.

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Infographics

Clear visual summaries that explain the ageing population, housing need and planning benefits.

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Report covers

Professional report outputs for needs assessments, health impact work and evidence base studies.

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Charts

Visual evidence to show population trends, accommodation supply, demand and impact over time.

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Maps

Spatial outputs that help explain site context, catchments, accessibility and local need.

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Selected projects
Later living project work

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.

Care homes Housing with care Appeals Green Belt
CGI of the approved Aperdele Road care home in Leatherhead Image credit: Harris Irwin
Later Living Full planning permission

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
Team Peter Tooher, Meg Douglas
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Chivas House care home project image in Hammersmith
Later Living Change of use

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
Team Sarah Roe
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CGI of the Wilton Park later living scheme near Beaconsfield
Later Living Appeal allowed

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
Team Oliver Bell, Planning Witness at Inquiry
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Sector clients
Trusted by later living operators

We advise 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.

Developers Operators Care providers Retirement communities
Later Living contacts
Specialist sector team

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.

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London, South East and South West

Sarah Roe

Associate Director

s.roe@nexusplanning.co.uk +44 (0) 7889 642 257
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London, South East and South West

Adrian Kearley

Consultant

a.kearley@nexusplanning.co.uk +44 (0) 7748 842 025
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Midlands and the North

Peter Tooher

Executive Director

p.tooher@nexusplanning.co.uk +44 (0) 7515 974 977
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Midlands and the North

Heather Lindley Clapp

Director

h.lindley-clapp@nexusplanning.co.uk +44 (0) 7795 971 672
Nexus Analytics and Research

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.

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Fiona Bruce

Research Analyst

f.bruce@nexusplanning.co.uk +44 (0) 7732 687 308
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Planning for later living

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.

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