JTP Contributes to Journal Article on Downsizing
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JTP Contributes to Journal Article on Downsizing

Published on 15 June 2016

The Design of Mainstream Housing for Downsizers Article co-authored by Janet Sutherland and Jonathan Tarbatt of JTP has recently been published by Taylor and Francis Online in Journal of Housing For the Elderly, Volume 30, Issue 2, 2016.

In the United Kingdom, the supply of new homes to the housing market tends to be focused either on “general-needs” housing on the one hand, or on special-needs housing for the elderly on the other, with relatively few people moving into homes that will support their independence as they age.

Against the backdrop of the UK's chronic housing shortage and the UK government's recent Housing Standards Review, this case study of a mainstream housing development—which meets so-called “Lifetime Homes” in “Lifetime Neighborhoods” standards—identifies specific design and locational features that have attracted “downsizers” to buy into it, as well as those they subsequently found problematic.

JTP’s Graylingwell project was the focus of the downsizing study

The journal can be accessed by subscription through the Taylor and Francis website.