1. Affordability Later in Life
Roger Battersby Managing Partner, PRP Architects LLP

2. The Current Context Ageing Population Impact on Mainstream Housing
Generation Change: Aspirations
Personal Care Budgets
The Dilnott Commission
Public Sector Funding Cuts

3. The Housing & Care Spectrum

4. Current Provision: Retirement Villages
Painswick, Gloucestershire – Richmond Villages

5. Current Provision: Extra Care
432 Units on 5 Sites
Larger scale with 57 to 133 flats per site
Mixed Tenure
Community Resource Centres
Regenerating neighbourhoods

6. Current Provision: The In-betweeners
Own a 3 bedroom family house
Modest savings
Modest pension
Very little in the way of alternatives to Staying Put available…..

7. Key Issues
The paper identifies 6 key issues that need to be addressed:
Partnering Locally to Deliver
Overcome obstacles to delivery
Promote Innovative Capital & Revenue Funding Solutions
Review Existing Models & Standards
Optimise Existing Stock through Remodelling and Asset Management
Reducing Procurement Costs and Standardising the Product

8. Partnering Locally to Deliver and Overcome Obstacles
Local Needs: Local Delivery
Pivotal Role of Local Authorities
Joining up Health, Housing and Adult Services
Planning: Local & Neighbourhood Plans
Overcoming Obstacles
Raising Awareness
Funding Cuts
Planning Policy
Land Availability
Affordability Criteria: 80% of Market Rental
Neptuna, Malmo Prioritises affordable housing at the heart of its urban regeneration…

9. Promote Innovative Capital & Revenue Funding Solutions
Mixing Tenure: Shared Ownership, Private Rental
Mixing Use: Alternative Revenue Funding Streams
Housing & Care Packages: Insurance Premium for Care Cover
Equity Release from Existing Housing Stock
Co-housing: Land availability, Bridge Funding, Development Support
Co Housing - Herfra til Evigheden, Roskilde
Hartrigg Oaks, York – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

10. Review Existing Models & Standards
Staying Put: review inclusive design standards, Assistive Technology
Independent Living: Market Opportunity for Care Ready Apartments, Well Located, Minimal Communal, Lifestyle Choice
Extra Care: Viability Issues, Impact of Personal Budgets, Resident Profile – Need for Economies of Scale, Community Integration & Sharing Services/Facilities
Continuing Care Community HUBS: Community based, Economies of Scale, Dementia Care, Resource Centres
Importance of Location: Accessible Neighbourhoods, Volunteers, Family Ties

11. Community HUB – Extra Care a Service?
Laundry Services
Respite Care
Extra Care = Independent Living?
Community
Community
HUB
Care Services
Day Care
Catering Services
Community
Community

12. Care HUBs in the Community
Drop-In
Facility
Nursing
Care
Day
Care
Resource Centre
Care Base
Respite
Care
Intermediate
Care
Dementia
Care

13. Optimise Existing Stock: Remodelling & Asset Management
Recycling Existing Buildings: Tower Blocks, Deck Access, Bedsit Flats.
Retrofit for Energy Efficiency
Reducing VAT to Promote Reuse
Asset Management Programme: Lifting Covenants on LSVT disposals
Deck Access, Pimlico
Glastonbury House, Pimlico
de Rokade, Groningen

14. Reducing Procurement Costs and Standardising the Product
Review PFI & PPP to reduce Risk/Cost
Review EU Procurement Mechanisms
Partnering with Contractors to Fund & Construct
Standardisation/ Rationalisation in Design
OSM/Volumetric Build?

15. Planning for our future….
…..a major opportunity for housing developers, investors and funders to develop new models for attractive, sustainable and ‘care ready’ housing for a growing market….
‘Independent Living’ –
de Plussenburgh, Rotterdam

16. Roger Battersby Managing Partner, PRP Architects LLP
Affordability Later in Life
Roger Battersby Managing Partner, PRP Architects LLP