88 | LIFESTYLE Presbyterian Support Central: Kandahar Villas T T Richard Loader New villas tie in with historic home The location in Totara Street provides residents of the villas with an easy stroll to the nearby Landsdowne Shopping Centre. Nestled in Masterton’s ever so beautiful leafy residential suburb of Lansdowne is Kandahar Retirement village, with 52 high-quality and comfortable villas under a programme of staged development. Owned by Presbyterian Support Central (PSC), which operates a number of retirement homes and villages throughout the lower North Island, the village has been designed to surround Kandahar Rest Home — an historic and gracious manor home that has long been converted for care of the elderly. The location in Totara Street provides residents of the villas with an easy stroll to the nearby Landsdowne Shopping Centre, and is in close proximity to Masterton’s bustling CBD. Further along Totara Street is Lansdowne Hill, the home of Landsdowne Golf Couse, where a young Sir Bob Charles began crafting his skills. The Village is being developed over five stages, with Stage Three just completed and residents about to move into their new homes. To date thirty-one of the fifty-two villas have been completed, with the next stage consisting of a further eleven. Brick and tile with gabled roofs, the villas will be a combination of duplexes and standalone dwellings, all built with the residents’ comfort and warmth in mind, and designed to Lifemark® Four standard, enabling wheel chair access in doorways and showers. Importantly, there are internal garages and while some villas are slightly smaller, the larger villas offer the popular variation of a conservatory. Anthony Taylor, PSC’s GM Of Property, says the model offered by PSC enables owners to purchase an occupation right, entitling them to live in the villas until they are ready to take the next stage in their life journey. “With maintenance concerns or having to pay rates or insurance removed, and the benefit of lock and leave, life gets a whole lot easier for the residents in the village, than staying in the family home, particularly when one of the partners has to go into a rest home. By building around our existing rest home, many people may migrate across from their villa to the home.” While a couple will typically move into a villa, there may come a time when for health reasons one of the partners requires care and will move into the rest home much earlier than the other. “With maintenance concerns or having to pay rates or insurance removed, life gets a whole lot easier for the residents in the village.” Having the rest home just down the path from the villa provides the remaining partner the convenience of visiting, and also getting to know the carers and staff. “The lower limit for eligibility to move into the villas is 65 but the average for Stage One of the village development was the early 80s,” says Anthony. “Another benefit of villages like Kandahar is that it provides the residents with a sense of community and people form close friendships with others in the village. The village will also include a community lounge in a separate building that we are opening in the next few weeks. That will provide a social area, with rooms for different activities, and there is space for a hairdresser and podiatrist. There is also a kitchen there that people can use for functions. That building is all about socialising and making friendships and also to bring friends and family to.” Leading the construction team building the village is Whanganui based Devon Homes, which has enjoyed a long and trusted relationship with PSC. “They have built other villas for us in Whanganui and they also offered a design and build solution, which we were keen to access. We’ve undertaken the development in small stages, so that if there’s a slowdown in the property market, we can just hold, and wait till the villas sell down, before picking the programme up again.” PSC’s roots go back over a hundred years when it was founded by a presbyterian minister who saw a need for orphanages. While no longer directly aligned to the Church, PSC still operates as a charity, with age care as its main focus. c o m m u n i c a t i o n s c o n t r a c t o r s l t d certified installer of - STRUCTURED CABLING DATA SYSTEMS - CCTV - ALARMS - TEST AND TAG - TRENCHING - HOME & COMMERCIAL AUDIO INTEGRATION - DOLBY ATMOS - FIBRE INSTALLATION - SPLICING - STARLINK INSTALLATION 027 253 7437 | Jake@pulsecomms.co.nz
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDc2Mzg=