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Peter Carr, president of the Retirement Villages Residents Association of New Zealand, says residents want to level the playing field with retirement village owners.
Retirement village residents have put pen to paper and fingers to keyboards in their hundreds to back a major revamp of the law governing retirement villages. A key bugbear up for debate are residents, or their families or estate, not sharing in the capital gain on units when the residents pass away or go into care. Most village owners keep the capital gain when the unit is resold. President of the Retirement Villages Residents Association, Peter Carr, said 98.5 per cent of the 2000 responses to their survey of members supported a major review of the Retirement Villages Act 2003.
Business digest: Tauranga s Bayfair Shopping Centre wins in accessibility awards
20 Dec, 2020 10:01 PM
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Bay of Plenty Times
For the fourth year in a row, Bayfair Shopping Centre has been awarded for having the most inclusive business practices in 2019/2020. The shopping centre also took out the New Build-Commercial category 2019/2020 for its development at the Tauranga City Accessibility Awards.
Bayfair Shopping Centre has promoted social responsibility through a strategy to become more accessible by incorporating core values in all its social events and initiatives.
The goal is to raise awareness of accessibility issues within the wider community.
As part of its $115 million development project, the centre took the opportunity to install a fire evacuation visual alert system throughout the centre, mount Braille wayfinding signage across all amenities and update the store directory to include Braille for people with hearing and visual impa