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<\/a>Charters Village in East Grinstead<\/p><\/div>\n
Charters Village<\/a> in East Grinstead, East Sussex\u00a0is the newest addition to the Retirement Villages’s portfolio, which now extends to 14 villages across the UK.<\/p>\n Eight villages provide on-site care homes and the others offer domiciliary care with full-time care staff on site. Charters Village’s opening last year marked the completion of\u00a033 apartments, six chalet bungalows and a 60-bed nursing, residential, dementia and day-care centre.<\/p>\n Designed for the over 65s a second phase of 46 one-and-two-bedroom apartments is now\u00a0under construction on the 16-acre site\u00a0as well as three one-bedroom bungalows.<\/p>\n Mr Welby acknowledges that Retirement Villages has to cater to very wide age group\u00a0which has\u00a0varying expectations and needs.<\/p>\n \u201cChronological age is irrelevant,\u201d he says. \u201cSome people as young as 55 can be thinking of moving into a retirement village while others can be in their 80s and 90s \u2013 in fact the chairman of one of our residents\u2019 associations is well into his nineties and is sharp as a button. It’s all a state of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n One thing that has changed over the years is demand for extra domiciliary care. \u201cThis is what differentiates us from other operators,” adds Mr Welby. “We\u00a0provide domiciliary care in a\u00a0more upmarket fashion.<\/p>\n \u201cWe offer villages with care rather than care homes,” Mr Welby emphasises. \u201cWe provide domiciliary care which is not on an ad hoc basis where someone calls in for 20 minutes twice a day. We employ permanent salaried staff who are on site so you see the same person every day.<\/p>\n “We sell a variety of care packages including cleaning, shopping, washing so people can be in control of what they spend and what they need. Looking 10 years ahead we see providing extra care as a big growth area.”<\/p>\n Set within 28 acres of landscaped grounds, there is a croquet lawn and village pond, allotments and gardens. A new club house featuring a bar, restaurant, library, shop and surgery is now being built as well as 39 extra-care apartments for those who need more support.<\/p>\n [pullquote1 quotes=”true” align=”right” variation=”blue<\/span><\/span>“]We\u00a0provide domiciliary care in a\u00a0more upmarket fashion[\/pullquote1]<\/p>\n At\u00a0Moat Park<\/a>\u00a0in Essex 26 apartments designed for independent living have been completed priced from \u00a3225,000 for a one bed and \u00a3350,000 for a two bed. Permission is now being sought for more cottages and an additional 12 rooms to be added to the on-site care home, increasing it to 72 beds.<\/p>\n In the mean time an expansion programme is underway\u00a0at Roseland Parc<\/a> near Truro where there are plans for eight further apartments and at Lime Tree Village <\/a>in Warwickshire 44 two-and-three-bedroom apartments priced from \u00a3373,950\u00a0have just been launched.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Retirement Villages’s Elmbridge Village<\/a> is one of the largest retirement communities in the country with 236 bungalows and apartments near Cranleigh in Surrey.<\/p>\n