A property developer owned by a French investment
management group has announced an ambitious £2bn plan to build 5,000 retirement
homes across 40 urban sites in the UK over the next decade. As town and city
centres are being reshaped as a result of the changes to UK high streets
accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, Retirement Villages Group (RVG) said
it had won planning permission for a £110m retirement community of 196 one and
two-bed apartments to rent or buy in central West Byfleet in Surrey, on the
site of a 1960s office block with shops and a car park, which will be knocked
down. Read more on the Guardian website.
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