Harvest Court, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9QY | Sheltered housing, retirement housing, supported housing for older people

Info Aims Buildings Services Residents Mgmt/Costs

Managed by: Aldwyck Housing Group

Manager's description

“The care and attention provided by the Scheme Manager also includes a requirement to respond to the need of any resident (in the first instance) where, due to the advent of ill-health, accident or some other cause, the resident is in need of help. The Scheme Manager will respond by giving immediate practical aid and alert the residents's doctor and relatives and will continue to give comfort and support until the arrival of the doctor and relatives and will continue to give comfort until the arrival of the doctor and relatives and the normal Health and Social Services Authorities have been alerted.

There is no communal lounge at Harvest Court but residents do have use of the Committee Room at the Community Centre across from the development on Thursday afternoons from 2 - 4.30pm. A weekly coffee morning is held in the Committee Room on Thursday mornings, and a monthly lunch is held at the local Blackberry Jack pub....” show more

Main facts

Housing with support
43 flats, bungalows, cottages. Built in 1989. Sizes 2 bedroom. Includes mobility and wheelchair standard properties
Resident management staff and community alarm service
Lift, stair lift(s), laundry, garden, community centre
Whole site accessible by wheelchair. Access to site easy, but less so for less mobile people. Distances: bus stop 88 yards; shop 50 yards; post office 50 yards; town centre 2 mile(s); GP 30 yards; social centre 30 yards
Regular social activities include lunches and coffee mornings etc. New residents accepted from 60 years of age. Both cats & dogs generally accepted, but not to be replaced (dogs must be exercised off the scheme)
Leasehold
Cost: Prices from £200000 (lease originally 125 years) (at 05/09/2011)

Info updated: 05/09/2011. Update info