Pioneering: the sheltered housing complex that’s more like a hotel

An organisation with no money and no land managed to set up a pioneering ‘hotel for the elderly’ in Chesterfield nearly 25 years ago. David Botham tells this heartwarming story.

SOME BUILDINGS are pleasing to the eye and some less so. A few are beautiful and a few might benefit from a facelift  – rather like us. And, just like us, every building can tell a story or two about the community in which it lives…