Recognised For Second Consecutive Year as Most Outstanding Retirement Housing Operator

A policy of providing competitively priced, attractively designed accommodation for the UK's growing retirement-age population is reaping rewards for Churchill Retirement Living.

For the second consecutive year, Ringwood-based developer, Churchill Retirement Living has just won a top accolade for its high quality retirement housing: it was awarded the UK's Most Outstanding Retirement Housing Operator 2010, the highest in this category, by the UK Over 50s Housing Weekly News magazine.

According to Esmonde Crawley, Editor of UK Over 50s Housing Weekly, the awards have been created to celebrate and reward excellence in the country's over 50s housing sector, giving recognition to efforts to advance the profitability and surplus of all industry sectors. "In a year when there has been significant press antagonism expressed about high profile operators in the retirement living and management sector, Churchill Retirement Living has grown its portfolio without a murmur.

"To receive this award for the second consecutive year means Churchill is without peer in the independent living/retirement and management sector.”

Churchill Retirement Living is a family owned Company founded in 1994 to respond to the growing demand for accommodation for people aged 60 and over, who wish to combine an independent lifestyle with excellent levels of safety and security. To this end, the Company creates developments of self-contained, competitively priced apartments with a carefully selected Lodge Manager, appointed through a dedicated management company, Millstream Management Services, to oversee the smooth running of the developments. The Company's current developments are in prime locations across the South East and South West of England and up to Staffordshire in the Midlands.

Spencer McCarthy, Chairman and Group Managing Director of Churchill Retirement Living said: "We are delighted to have been recognized as leaders in our field, two years running, particularly by UK Over 50s Housing Weekly News which is a market leader itself, in research and reporting of all the trends and challenges to the financial, development, building and senior housing management sectors.”