Date: November 2007
RICHMOND VILLAGES WINS MORE AWARDS!
Gold Award for the Best Retirement Development category at the What House? Awards 2007
Following on from its success in the Daily Mail UK Property Awards, Richmond Villages has won gold in the Best Retirement Development category at this year’s What House? Awards, for its latest retirement village in Painswick, Gloucestershire.
The prestigious award was presented at the official awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.
Describing the winning development, the judges said: “These Cotswold stone buildings use sensational architecture in a beautiful setting, and are set around a five-acre site to maximise views of the rolling hills.
“The village is designed for both the active elderly and those needing much closer care. In addition, there is a nursing home, where attention has also been paid to orientate windows so that patients can enjoy the countryside views. Apartments - designed from the outside to look like cottages - are grouped to give a feeling of an old-style village rather than a ‘development’.”
Commented Keith Cockell, managing director of Richmond Villages, and the mastermind behind the design of the Painswick retirement village: “Naturally, we are all highly delighted – it’s a great accolade for us as the developer and operator, as well as for our team at Painswick.
“The design and construction of this development has been a considerable challenge, not least because we needed to ensure that it blended subtly with the vernacular of Painswick, itself a quintessential Cotswold village. We had to meet a number of very strict planning and conservation requirements, while also ensuring we provided the highest quality of care and leisure facilities for our residents.”
Richmond Villages Painswick
Richmond Villages develops and operates several premium quality retirement villages in the UK, its village at Painswick in the Cotswolds being the latest. The striking new buildings comprise nursing accommodation and serviced apartments, plus a variety of first class facilities that include a superb restaurant, a wellness spa with swimming pool, treatment rooms and a gymnasium, plus a roof top garden.
Richmond Painswick now offers three retirement living options – assisted living apartments, nursing beds and independent living apartments – some 80 units in all, with exceptional levels of care available throughout.
The What House? AwardsNow in their 26th year, the What House? Awards are Britain’s oldest and most respected residential property awards. Widely known as the ‘Oscars’ of the housebuilding industry, they are organised by the publishers of industry magazine Show House and the consumer website What House?, and judged by a panel of property industry experts, from architects to journalists. From literally hundreds of new property developments, winners are selected for some 20 separate categories.
The What House? Awards are open to all housebuilders and developers as well as housing associations, offer quality assurance to the purchasersof new homes, and are the ultimate symbol of excellence.
For further information about Richmond Painswick, please contact 01452 813902 or visit www.richmond-villages.com
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Notes to editors:
More Richmond Villages in the pipeline:
A Richmond Villages development is currently under construction in Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire, and building of a village at Torquay is expected to start in summer 2008. Outline planning permission has been granted for villages in Aston Upon Trent, Macclesfield and Witney, while the planning process also includes new villages in Warwick and Wood Norton near Evesham.
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