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Plans submitted for former Purbrook Vicarage Retirement Flats

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In 2016 McCarthy & Stone Retirement Lifestyles won on appeal permission to demolish Purbrook’s former vicarage/industrial estate and replace with a retirement complex.

The developer’s design proposes 43 retirements flats with a total of 63 bedrooms plus two 2 new retail units. 32 car parking spaces have been allocated for the retirement complex but HBC’s Traffic Management team have stated that more spaces are required.

Vehicle access to the retirement complex will be from Stakes Road via Ladybridge Road, there will be no access from the main road/A3.

The plans are available for public comment on Havant Borough Council’s planning portal.

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  4. It is so sad that lovely old building is going to be demolished. Actually it’s more than sad, it’s criminal. It’s not as if it was derelict, it was in use! Sad sign of the times.

  7. They obviously don’t want any places for people to go shopping and yo bring any revenue to the town so let’s just fill it up with houses and flats coffee bars nail bars estate agents oh and not forgetting the ludicrous amounts of charity shops and hairdressers but we won’t give all these people that are going to be living in the area somewhere decent to shop and to have a decent nite out bloody stupid if you ask me

  12. Interesting that more parking spaces are required when the 27 Churchill flats on Hulbert Road roundabout passed with planning permission for just six spaces. Visitors there are expected to use the town car parks.

  14. This shower of cowboys always get their way – they were told to amend their hideously designed home by the pier in Southsea but instead of doing it they went crying to appeal and got their own way. Planning is a joke with no consideration for local residents, history or good design! It’s shameful that this lovely house can’t be saved.

    • But you understand that it is to entice the old people out of the proper houses and into the retirement properties and therefore freeing up the proper housing stock for us families. Do these old people need to be blocking up these two/three or four bed family homes when it’s just them living there?

    • Not sure if you have seen the price of these retirement flats, they can be as expensive as a small house plus there is a monthly maintenance charge.

      Many older people don’t want to move from a detached house to an enclosed flat, they enjoy gardening, wish to retain their privacy, and wish to retain their independence. They wish to retain the neighbours and nearby friends that have acquired over perhaps over half a century. They also wish to retain their car and limited parking impacts this. Moving to a retirement flat means they will lose parking for visitors and lose the ability to have friends and family stay overnight. Also there is the amount of stuff acquired that cannot be easily downsized, stuff has been accumulated over the years, stuff that holds memories.

      Finally the house, when the occupant dies, can be passed down to their children, a retirement flat can be more difficult to sell as the person moving in will want it freshly decorated with new carpets, new kitchen etc.

      So that is a few reasons why people like to stay put until infirmity means they have to move to assisted or sheltered housing. The UK population is set to get older and people are living longer, so building these retirement complexes is a massive money spinner for the developer.

    • How dare you. Old people have worked & paid for their homes & contributed why should we move to accommodate you. Get planners to build better larger family homes. You will be old sooner than you think

  27. Purbrook needs affordable housing for young couples and single commuters more than anything else. I would have lived to have stayed in that area when I split with my ex in 2014, but after selling our bungalow in Widley neither of us could afford to buy anywhere suitable on our individual halves of the sale proceeds.