3. The Rev Dr John Bunyan asked -

(a) Were the Anglican Retirement Villages originally founded with one of the major purposes that of providing inexpensive accommodation for such members of the clergy and other church workers of the Diocese of Sydney who required it?

(b) Was a special concession offered to clergy and other workers until recently in all the villages? Is such a concession offered now only at Castle Hill where some would find access to family and friends and the city difficult? Were the clergy notified of this change and if not why not, and will consideration be given to restoring the more general concession?

To which the President replied -

I am advised that the answer to the question is as follows -

(a) Since inception ARV has had a policy of offering inexpensive accommodation to clergy and some other church workers.

(b) Such special concession has always been and is still offered in those Villages where available subject to medical and other requirements.

Subject to availability, appropriate accommodation at locations other than Castle Hill is offered.