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.
Not the vicarage ð
Jean Johnson
They built loads in Waterlooville already didn’t they?
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.
More retirement flats?!
Again big money wins! No attention paid to peopleâs views!
They obviously donât want any places for people to go shopping and yo bring any revenue to the town so letâs 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 wonât 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
Interesting. Appeals by the major developers invariably succeed. Just saying …! ð¤
Alex Ireson
Thinking about moving? Guess youâll soon be of an appropriate age.
Jonathan Ireson thinking for u
Oh what a shame, no more building please .
As the owners of Purbrook Garage we tried hard to stop this development and continue trading from this site but to no avail unfortunately. ð
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.
Lack of parking is probably why they can’t sell them all…. that and the lovely outlook!
Sorry but this really pi$$es me off and how the hell does it ever get agreed
I reckon they should get rid of whoever is on these committees and put people who live and shop in the certain areas they would have more idea
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.
Hope the bus is going to stop for them via stakes rd other wise traffic queues on a already busy road ðð sad to lose the vicarage
Isnât that a listed building? Thought listed buildings had rights? Money talks eh
Not listed I am sorry to say.
Mind you that made no difference to Swiss Cottage
That wasn’t listed either. Unfortunately not many buildings in the borough are listed.
Yes and the wait end farm house is listed and that’s being pulled down soon and a children’s nursary is being built in its place !
Wait End farm house isn’t listed either I’m afraid.
I thought that they were all listed buildings. Thatâs the impression I got from comments going back a year or two ago.
Lindsay Salisbury
Omg more retirement flats to be sold at extortionate prices I bet!!!
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?
ok fair point given but there does seen to be constant building work for O.A.P’s housing everywhere at the moment
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
The developer has bought everything around the old house too so they wont give up and itâll go ahead. Why we need more retirement flats though is beyond me!
More beautiful old buildings being destroyed for flats ð¡
Oh dear â¹ï¸
What a shame another old building is going. I canât believe more retirement flats are required but as others have said âmoney talksâ!
Flats ..houses..theyre shoving them in everywhere possible .No more amenities though ..Council quotas and payments .Thats all it takes !
Another one really this is all u see going up now in any free space what about building some homes ð for the younger hard working families they deserve a nice home!!!!
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?
Yes, if that’s what they want
David Riddell . How many young families could afford to buy houses vacated by older people? Surely it would be better for affordable housing to be built rather than rabbit hutches for the elderly.
Dom Pumfrey
Good spot! This will be FP McCann. We gotta get in there!
Really?! More retirement housing?? What about affordable housing for first time buyers ð
There’s enough of them **** hole house around the area don’t need anymore
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.
Sarah Harrison