Retirement and Care

Grove Place 
Retirement Village
Southampton, Hampshire

Client: LifeCare Residences Ltd

  • Town planning

  • Ecology


  • Landscape architecture


  • Heritage

The practice was appointed to help deliver a new continuing care retirement village at a grade-I listed Elizabethan house in an attractive rural location near Southampton, that had previously been occupied by a private school.

The project involved careful negotiations with a number of key stakeholders including English Heritage (now Historic England), Natural England, the local community and the council in order to agree an appropriate scheme.

We were able to successfully demonstrate that a sensitive conversion and redevelopment of the house in its historic gardens could create a retirement village that would offer a sustainable long-term use for the listed building and its setting.  The final scheme delivered 115 units with complementary leisure and service facilities.

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  • Terence O'Rourke is an award winning planning and design company, integrating these skills to help deliver exceptional projects. 

    Our team offers town planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and environmental planning (including environmental impact assessment, heritage and ecology) services. We have a unique skillset and approach that deals creatively with challenging planning situations to deliver commercially viable solutions across all sectors of the economy. 

  • We work with nationally and internationally known clients including: 

    BAE Systems, BMW Rolls Royce, Grosvenor, McLaren and Warner Bros., major housebuilders and infrastructure providers and have worked on high profile projects and sites such as the Chewton Glen Hotel and Spa Tree Houses, the Clay Country eco-community, the Goodwood Estate, Luton Airport, Silverstone Park, Mercedes-Benz World, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and Studio Tour – 'The Making of Harry Potter.'