Come and visit Cooper's Hill or one of our other 20 luxury retirement villages around the country. It's truly eye-opening to experience one of our luxury villages, complete with health and wellness suite, restaurant, library, and modern spacious apartments and cottages.
A real retirement village in Surrey, set in a Grade II listed Victorian Gothic building with landscaped grounds, modern apartments, a restaurant, library, swimming pool, and health club. Audley Cooper's Hill is refined luxury, encouraging independent living and community. Enjoy views across to Windsor Castle on a clear day.
A fictional luxury retirement community in the Thursday Murder Club novels, set in Kent/Sussex countryside, converted from a former convent. It is presented with a slightly satirical, eccentric twist, populated by colourful retirees who spend as much time solving murders as they do enjoying the village and the surrounding countryside and farmland.
Independent, affluent retirees aged 55+, seeking lifestyle, wellness, and friendship. Retirement villages are exclusive, tranquil, and well-serviced.
The focus is on comfort, security, and high-end service. Events tend to be cultural, social, and wellbeing-oriented - think food and wine tastings, exercise classes, interesting talks.
Groups include photography, gardening, jazz band and more!
The fictional community is social but chaotic, centred around quirky, intelligent, and rebellious retirees who form a club to solve cold cases.
Vibrant and nosy; residents are constantly in each other’s business, forming close friendships and amateur detective networks.
The residents’ clubs are unconventional, and the plot hinges on eccentric personalities, mischief, and crime-solving rather than spa treatments and wellbeing.
At the heart of every Audley retirement village is a main house offering a health club with gym and fitness studio, heated indoor pool (selected locations), hollistic therapies, restaurant, bar and bistro.
Daily events include themed dinners, games, coffee mornings, knowledge-sharing talks, and minibus trips.
If you have watched the new film you'll have spotted the alpacas roaming the grounds of Cooper's Chase, the fictional retirement village. We've had the occasional alpaca, tortoise, pony, chicken, snake (and many cats and dogs) either visit or move to our Audley villages too. Check out this photo of two such guests visiting the Audley Clevedon summer fair in Ilkley, Yorkshire.
Integrated Retirement Communities offer people the opportunity to live independently in their own home as part of a wider community. Lifestyle, wellbeing and care services are available to support people’s independence and aspirations. The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) says these communities are the fast-emerging ‘lifestyle option’ for older people, sitting between ‘sheltered housing’ where minimal support is provided, and ‘care’ or ‘nursing’ homes, which are increasingly focussed on supporting people with higher levels of care needs. Audley Villages is an ARCO approved operator of Integrated Retirement Communities. Find out more here: https://www.arcouk.org or download the ARCO IRC guide here (PDF).
Audley retirement villages vary in size, but each village typically contains around 100+ one, two and three-bedroom retirement properties, in and around a central building with health suite and restaurant.
Absolutely. With Audley you stay firmly in control, with complete freedom and independence to live the life you choose. You buy and own your retirement home, in a beautiful and secure environment, and because it is your house, you don’t have to give up the things you love, including your pets. Plus, you have the added luxury of having your gardens and property maintained for you.
Each house, cottage or apartment in one of our retirement villages is sold with a lease of up to 250 years (length of lease varies by village). It is your home, held as your own asset – and, of course, you are free to sell at any stage, on the open market. So you are able to enjoy the benefits of a continued investment in a property of your own.
There are two costs associated with living in an integrated retirement community. These fees ensure that all the costs of running a village are met. This includes ongoing costs such as maintaining the exterior of your home, your building insurance, your Audley Club membership, providing discreet but effective security, maintaining the village and the village grounds, as well as fees associated with managing and operating Audley Court Ltd. Additionally at some point in the future, expensive structural repairs or improvements will become necessary, for instance, resurfacing roadways and pathways or reroofing properties.
At Audley we collect a monthly management fee and a deferred management charge, to ensure we have sufficient funds to cover all the ongoing costs of running the village and the expense of any major works required. You can find out more about fees here and all fees information is also accessible from the village page on this website. Property prices can be found online when you search properties at your preferred village.
Please note that ground rent is not charged on new properties but may remain payable on pre-owned properties at the rate set out in the relevant lease.
