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@azureline** wrote:

I am looking at the future and thinking at around 70 I will be moving to a retirement unit in a place that has a good nursing home attached or nearby. (there is one exactly as I want it less than 1k from here)

I don't care if the investment value drops, I don't want my children to care for me at home.... and they were raised to be independant financially.

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LOL, I thought you were already 70, azureline!!!

Then I have been grossly mis-informed.  My local council has no idea of how many

granny flats are in their municipality because they don't know.  They said the definition

was for the structure to be dismantled when no longer needed but that they do not enforce it.

I live suburban, not bush fire territory

Looks like I may have spoken to a 'richard' in Planning.  Will need to research it myself cos

that's where I was going