During the last housing boom in the late noughties, some clients moved to a ‘retirement village’ near Stroud. Within a couple of years, the nursing home (which had to be there to get planning) and on-site managers had disappeared, the developers turned out to be based somewhere in the Caribbean and the site owned by RBS, who had stumped up the money. Years of legal cans of worms ensued. So I don’t think I’m being unduly NIMBY to be rather cynical about a planning application for 173 ‘extra care residential units’ in Burford. Or is it just me?
“Suitability concerns over risk tools ‘too crude for clients’”
Here's something which might cheer you up: we're going to live longer than we think. Apparently, most of us think we're going to shuffle off well before lies, damn lies and statistics say we should. Those in their 50s and 60s give themselves until they're 80, whereas...
