Perseus News

Perseus Land and Developments, the developer of bespoke care homes, retirement and residential accommodation for the later living sector, in collaboration with the Barwood Property 2017 Fund, has successfully obtained planning consent for a 70 bedroom care home at Manor Road, Selsey.

The site occupies a prominent location on the main arterial road into the town centre and is adjacent to a brand new and attractively designed ASDA Superstore and Costa Coffee outlet.

Perseus’s Managing Director, Duncan Ford, commented: “We identified Selsey some time ago as a location wi

th an obvious undersupply of good quality, purpose-built care homes. The average house prices being achieved here and in nearby East and West Wittering are very strong indeed, and when the opportunity arose to acquire such a prominent and accessible site, we grabbed it with both hands. I have acquired many care home sites next to supermarkets over the years, and the feedback from operators is that they have always filled very quickly indeed, which I suspect is because the relatives of care home residents (who will often choose the home) like the idea of combined trips in the evenings and on weekends”.

Perseus would like to convey its special thanks to Harris Irwin Architects, Vail Williams Planning and Gillings Planning for their support throughout the planning process.

Perseus Land and Developments, the developer of bespoke care homes, retirement and residential accommodation for the later living sector, in collaboration the Barwood Property 2017 Fund, has completed the unconditional-on-planning purchase of the former Ashley House Care Home in Guildford.

Ashley House Existing

Ashley House, which closed in July 2020, was a converted 32-bedroom care home on a 1.1-acre site in a prime location where house prices within a two-mile radius average £600,000.
Perseus submitted a planning application in July to demolish the existing care home and develop a purpose built 60-bedroom facility in its place. This will provide much-needed residential, dementia, respite and palliative care for local people.

Duncan Ford, managing director said, “We are delighted to have acquired this site. This acquisition resulted from some good, old fashioned “door knocking”, which is a lost art among many developers, but one which we still value”.

Perseus has an excellent pipeline of site acquisitions in similar, prime locations and is always delighted to assist care home operators with their expansion plans.

Perseus is also prepared to purchase sites unconditionally-on-planning and welcomes enquiries from agents or landowners.

Ashley House Proposed

Perseus was advised by Christie & Co, Gillings Planning and Shoosmiths LLP on this purchase.

Weybridge CGI

Perseus Land and Developments, the developer of bespoke care homes, retirement and residential accommodation for the later living sector, in collaboration the Barwood Property 2017 Fund, has successfully obtained planning consent for a 64 bedroom nursing home on a former Wyevale Garden Centre site in Weybridge.

The site, which was acquired unconditionally in 2019, occupies a prime location between the private St George’s Hill residential estate and the renown Whitely Retirement Village, which is home to around five hundred older people.

This is the first of several schemes where Perseus has subdivided the bed spaces into ‘households’ of eight, each with their own, independent kitchen and lounge. It is sincerely hoped this will engender a sense of ‘family living’, that residents can be grouped together according to their healthcare needs, age-group and/or hobbies and interests, and that it will be much easier to isolate individual ‘households’ and bedrooms should the threat of Covid-19 continue. View Weybridge Floor Plan

Weybridge CGI

Duncan Ford, managing director said, “It is hugely pleasing to have secured planning permission to redevelop this Green Belt site for a much-needed, dementia-led nursing home. We are all terribly excited to see this scheme get built out and make a big difference to the quality of life for local people living with dementia and other conditions. Expect to see more along similar lines from us in the near future.”

Perseus would like to convey its special thanks to Harris Irwin Architects, Gillings Planning and Curtin & Co for their support throughout the planning process.

Perseus Land & Developments, the developer of bespoke accommodation for the later living sector, has appointed Tom Duck as construction director.

Tom is a chartered project manager and has 20 years’ construction project management experience. He joins from Fed3 Projects, a niche project management consultancy focused on the healthcare sector where he was a director. He has specifically spent the last five years working with Signature Senior Lifestyle on delivering its pipeline of luxury care homes in London and the South East.

Perseus was launched by care homes’ specialist Duncan Ford in September 2018 in a funding partnership with Barwood Capital, the Northampton-based UK regional real estate investment and development specialist. Perseus has now acquired 12 sites across the UK for care homes, retirement accommodation and extra care accommodation.

Duncan Ford, managing director, Perseus Land & Developments said: “We would like to offer a warm welcome to Tom who approached us speculatively about working with our rapidly expanding team. His strong development and project management skills, gained whilst working on behalf of one of the most prestigious care home operators in the industry, will be invaluable to us as we continue to acquire new sites for the delivery of high-quality later living accommodation hand-in-hand with attractive investor returns.”

21st July 2020