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Retirement complex approved for Hampshire village

Source: https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/all-construction-news

Retirement housing specialist Inspired Villages, working with regional developer Highwood Group, has outline planning permission to build a development in Horndean, Hampshire.The scheme includes 120 low-energy homes, fuelled by renewable energy, with solar panels, mechanical heat vent recovery units and air-source heat pump technology.Horndean will be Inspired Villages’ seventh retirement complex and its third to be net zero carbon rated.Inspired Villages, backed by a joint venture between Legal & General and NatWest Group Pension Fund, plans to have 34 later living sites within 10 years.Inspired Villages will be working in partnership with Highwood Group to submit a reserved matters application for the nine-acre site in Horndean, eight miles north of Portsmouth.Once approved, work is due to start in 2022.