Retirement Cottages now on release At Ballantine Garden Village

WJ Law is delighted to announce the release of Northern Ireland’s first private bespoke retirement cottages at Ballantine Garden Village,
Lisburn. These cottages make up the first strand of the 4 elements of retirement available at
Ballantine. The second strand will feature homes for the retired in an apartment setting; the third, a scheme of 22 cottages; and finally a top quality new care home.

Ballantine Garden Village is a vibrant and architecturally striking place to live which also will include shops, a crèche, doctors’ surgery, chemist and coffee shop. The retirement cottages and retirement clusters are an integral part of this vibrant community.

The cottages each have 4 bedrooms, where the ground floor bedroom is designed to be a further reception room until adaptation occurs. Adaptation is when the ground floor bedroom becomes the principal bedroom and the upstairs is adapted to become a carer’s apartment.

The principle is that people can move in at 75 years old. After a number of years they may need the Stannagh stair lift. Eventually, owners can easily adapt the home, and utilise the ground floor bedroom. Upstairs, the adapted home will then have an apartment for the use of a carer, or perhaps a relative.

Additionally owners of the retirement cottages may join in with the support services. The first port of call will be the Wardens living on site. Later, a higher level of support and domiciliary services will be available, based within the care home.

Reassurance and unobtrusive support is available also through the Fold tele health and tele care. From £6 per month, residents are given peace of mind through remote care. Each home is built to the highest UK specification available and is monitored by Fold telecare.

When a sensor is activated Fold will speak to residents through the built-in system and send either a relative or the Warden as needed.

Sensors can also be set to have the light go on gently in the bathroom automatically. Other examples are sensors at the door which can tell if a resident has been outside longer than expected.

For added peace of mind, sensors can be worn round the neck and, in the case of the period following hip surgery, a fall sensor can be worn.

While the first cottage is being built, a retirement cottage showroom is being developed at the Ballantine Garden Village
HQ. Within the showroom is a show suite of a retirement kitchen and bathroom facilities, plus information on the entire Retirement scheme.

We are grateful for the help of Fold, Age NI, and the Northern Ireland Older Persons Commissioner who are assisting us to ensure that the designs for the elderly are right first time. The first retirement cottage, site 131 is available for £225,000.