With high rents, horrible mortgage rents and loneliness affecting all generations, multigenerational living is growing in appeal
or Sandy Renson-Smith, leaving the picturesque Yorkshire cottage she had lived in for 42 years to move 150 miles to be with her adult children in Crewe was a much easier decision than it might sound. “When I discovered my daughter Jen was pregnant with her first child, I realised I needed to be nearer to them,” she said.
People may aspire to co-living, but combining two households can be a complicated and expensive business Some purpose-built properties exist. The architect firm PRP designed 880 homes for the Chobham Manor neighbourhood in Queen Elizabeth Park, east London, of which 75% were three-storey townhouses with a separate but linked annexe.
She funded the building work through the sale of her Yorkshire cottage and pays a share of the utility bills. Jen and Kieron pay the council tax, which is discounted because Renson-Smith is disabled. The only drawback she could think of was that her post is not delivered separately but through the main house.I like to help my kids. I don’t want them to wait til I die before they get something
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