Older people have to overcome a “psychological barrier”
which stops them downsizing to a smaller home, the housing and planning
minister has said. Brandon Lewis said he wanted property companies to build
more attractive bungalows which would encourage pensioners to move out of their
empty family homes. By 2021 the number
of households is on course to increase by 2.2million. Of that, 1.2million or 54
per cent will be households aged 65-years and over. However only 300 bungalows
were built in England in 2009, the most recent figures show, and currently only
two per cent of English homes are bungalows. Read more on the Daily Telegraph
website.
