Client: Royal Town Planning Institute/ Department of Health
Despite a rapidly ageing population and an increased emphasis on lifestyle accommodation for older people, insufficient policy attention has been given to extra care housing. This includes planning policy. Amongst others, confusion over its classification, employment generation issues and appropriate section 106 payments have impeded the delivery of new supply.
Recognising this, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Department of Health (DoH) jointly commissioned our research team to provide guidance on developing planning policies and evaluating site-specific planning applications, to be distributed to planning officers and other healthcare professionals across the UK.
The solution
This exercise drew together published literature and guidance, the views of numerous stakeholders and our own experience in advising some of the UK’s leading extra care providers. It included:
- A definition of extra care housing and care models
- A recommended checklist of questions and actions for planners to contemplate when considering older people’s housing and extra care housing
- Recommendations on the design issues that planners should consider
- A recommendation that local authorities should specifically assess the housing needs of older people within the context of development plan reviews
Results
In December 2006, our findings were taken and published as a consultation document targeting practitioners, and is part of the evidence base for the Dept of Health/RTPI’s Good Practice Note 8: Extra Care Housing: Development planning, control and management.
Click here to view the PDF document.
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