50 Golden Years

MP Mark Menzies (centre) joins members of the Lancaster family at Lamaleach Park Estates’ celebration event.

Lamaleach Park Estates in Lancashire has marked five decades of providing dream retirement lifestyles for its residents with a series of special anniversary celebrations. A public open day at the park in July welcomed VIP guests including the local mayoress and constituency MP, as well as residents and staff.
Opening the proceedings was Paul Lancaster whose grandfather Jack took the decision to diversify his dairy farm in 1966 by providing park homes for sale to mature couples. The expansion of Lamaleach continued under the stewardship of Jack’s son Michael who has now handed day-to-day management over to his son Paul and his wife Jane, a district nurse. Today, the park provides around 120 park homes for people aged 50-plus.
Paul said that park homes appeal especially to people who are able to sell their bricks-and-mortar house and buy a park property with a nest-egg left over for retirement.
“Lamaleach offers a semi-sheltered environment where residents live among people of a similar age and background - and which is, above all, affordable,” he said.