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Plans submitted for former Purbrook Vicarage Retirement Flats

Monday 13th November 2017 by Steve Mayne

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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  1. Vicki Hooper says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    Not the vicarage 😞

  2. Mandy Johnson says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    Jean Johnson

  3. Storm Hart says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    They built loads in Waterlooville already didn’t they?

  4. Gillian Ralls says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    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.

  5. Alice Lawrie says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    More retirement flats?!

  6. Susie Mulhern says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    Again big money wins! No attention paid to people’s views!

  7. Tracey Carter-Dent says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    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

  8. Ray Palmer says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    Interesting. Appeals by the major developers invariably succeed. Just saying …! 🤔

  9. Michael Ireson says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    Alex Ireson

    • Jonathan Ireson says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

      Thinking about moving? Guess you’ll soon be of an appropriate age.

    • Alex Ireson says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      Jonathan Ireson thinking for u

  10. Louise Morley Abbott says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    Oh what a shame, no more building please .

  11. Vicky John Coventry says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 18:54

    As the owners of Purbrook Garage we tried hard to stop this development and continue trading from this site but to no avail unfortunately. 😔

  12. Mary Shilstone says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    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.

    • Jen On Routesixtysix says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 23:54

      Lack of parking is probably why they can’t sell them all…. that and the lovely outlook!

  13. Mandy Cave says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    Sorry but this really pi$$es me off and how the hell does it ever get agreed

    • Tracey Carter-Dent says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      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

  14. Elly Newman says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    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.

  15. Alison Daniels says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    Hope the bus is going to stop for them via stakes rd other wise traffic queues on a already busy road 😞😞 sad to lose the vicarage

  16. Sandra Winter says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    Isn’t that a listed building? Thought listed buildings had rights? Money talks eh

    • About Waterlooville says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      Not listed I am sorry to say.

    • Sandra Winter says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      Mind you that made no difference to Swiss Cottage

    • About Waterlooville says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      That wasn’t listed either. Unfortunately not many buildings in the borough are listed.

    • Tracy Goddard says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      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 !

    • About Waterlooville says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

      Wait End farm house isn’t listed either I’m afraid.

    • Sandra Winter says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 20:54

      I thought that they were all listed buildings. That’s the impression I got from comments going back a year or two ago.

  17. Emma Salisbury says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    Lindsay Salisbury

  18. Claire Huntley-vince says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    Omg more retirement flats to be sold at extortionate prices I bet!!!

    • David Riddell says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 23:54

      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?

    • Claire Huntley-vince says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 23:54

      ok fair point given but there does seen to be constant building work for O.A.P’s housing everywhere at the moment

    • About Waterlooville says

      Tuesday 14th November 2017 at 09:54

      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.

    • Tina Butler says

      Tuesday 14th November 2017 at 10:54

      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

  19. Jill Stilwell says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:54

    The developer has bought everything around the old house too so they wont give up and it’ll go ahead. Why we need more retirement flats though is beyond me!

  20. Tracy Goddard says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:55

    More beautiful old buildings being destroyed for flats 😡

  21. Karen Hampson says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:55

    Oh dear ☹️

  22. Amanda Burgess says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:55

    What a shame another old building is going. I can’t believe more retirement flats are required but as others have said “money talks”!

  23. Kim Wilkinson says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 19:55

    Flats ..houses..theyre shoving them in everywhere possible .No more amenities though ..Council quotas and payments .Thats all it takes !

  24. Rachel Grist says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 20:54

    Another one really this is all u see going up now in any free space what about building some homes 🏠 for the younger hard working families they deserve a nice home!!!!

    • David Riddell says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 23:54

      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?

    • Val Prior says

      Tuesday 14th November 2017 at 07:54

      Yes, if that’s what they want

    • Mary Shilstone says

      Tuesday 14th November 2017 at 08:55

      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.

  25. Lee Tricker says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 20:54

    Dom Pumfrey

    • Dom Pumfrey says

      Monday 13th November 2017 at 21:54

      Good spot! This will be FP McCann. We gotta get in there!

  26. Hannah Crawford says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 20:54

    Really?! More retirement housing?? What about affordable housing for first time buyers 😠

    • Perry Groves says

      Tuesday 14th November 2017 at 11:54

      There’s enough of them **** hole house around the area don’t need anymore

  27. Susan Whittenham says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 21:54

    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.

  28. Lee Collier-Williams says

    Monday 13th November 2017 at 21:54

    Sarah Harrison