On publishing the NPPF Consultation Review last month, the Prime Minister issued a challenge to developers to “do their duty for Britain”, having benefited so much from the Government’s Help to Buy scheme. But what about those of us who haven’t benefited from this scheme at all?

Churchill Retirement Living is a retirement specialist, and we are doing our best to build the housing Britain’s ageing population desperately needs. We provide older people with more suitable accommodation to meet their changing needs, enabling them to live an independent lifestyle for longer. We build sustainably on brownfield sites in town centre locations. In doing so, we meet a growing social need, reducing social care costs for local councils, as well as providing many benefits to local people and local economies.

Since our customers are not first time buyers but older people looking to downsize, we’ve had no support at all from Help to Buy.

Instead, we’ve been faced with ever increasing costs, thanks to endless new Government and EU regulations, ever greater stealth taxation, and an increasingly shambolic planning system.

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