Frequently asked questions
Integrated retirement communities are designed to uphold flexibility, independence and wellbeing for people aged over 65. With a range of excellent facilities onsite and help and support on hand if and when needed, residents can enjoy peace of mind about the future. The facilities provided within the community are open and integrated with the wider community, allowing the wider community to make use of them as well.
At a retirement community, you have the option to buy or rent, with part buy part rent and rent to buy options for added flexibility. Plus, family and friends are free to stay, in the community’s guest suites, as and when they like.
We have now received planning permission for our plans to build a new 140-home retirement community for West Malling. Our plans support our commitment to delivering the best possible development of its kind in West Malling.
Our plans were submitted to Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council in November 2022. These proposals were granted planning permission in September 2023.
We anticipate construction will begin in late spring 2024 and will provide further details on this website.
We will build 140 retirment homes comprising apartments and cottages. There will be a range of sizes available inlcude one, two and some three bedroom homes.
There will be homes both for rent and for sale.
People aged 65 and over (including couples where one person is younger than 65) will be welcome to make the community their home. An integrated retirement community is not a care home, and will be attractive to people who want to live independently but with the ease of life and reassurance that comes from having amenities and services close at hand including care and support when needed.
People choose us as their home at a variety of ages for a range of reasons, but having done so really enjoy being able to continue to live life as they choose whilst enjoying all the village offers and many say they wish they’d moved sooner. Whether they want to stay active within the community, continue paid or voluntary work, spend more time with their families, put their feet-up or all of the above, we’ll be there to help make it easy and enjoyable.
The proposal provides 112 parking spaces for residents, visitors and staff, of which 22 spaces (20 per cent) will have an EV charging point from day one.
The remainder of the spaces will have cable ducts installed to enable easy installation of additional EV charging points as and when demand grows.