Chartwell 55+ Homes for Sale

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Chartwell, West Vancouver has no 55+ strata building of its own. The nearest 55+ homes you can buy are three Ambleside buildings: Westview Terrace, Tudor Gardens and Lincoln Gardens. Chartwell's other seniors housing, which you cannot buy into, is rental, retirement residence or care. This page points you to each building, covers local rules and answers the questions buyers ask.

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55+ strata buildings near Chartwell, in Ambleside

Westview Terrace — 1390 Duchess Ave (Ambleside)

Westview Terrace is described in full on the Ambleside 55+ page, where it is filed.

Tudor Gardens — 843 22nd St (Ambleside/Dundarave edge)

Tudor Gardens is described in full on the Ambleside 55+ page, where it is filed.

Lincoln Gardens — 2110 Marine Dr (Ambleside)

Lincoln Gardens is described in full on the Ambleside 55+ page, where it is filed.

Rental, care and subsidized seniors housing in Chartwell (not for sale)

  • Chartwell Churchill House Retirement Residence — 150 West 29th St, North Vancouver: Chartwell describes it as "the North Shore's only retirement residence offering both independent and assisted living lifestyles," a boutique-style continuum-of-care residence at 29th Street West and Lonsdale Avenue, five minutes from Lions Gate Hospital. It is registered in BC's Assisted Living Registry (class SN), legal operator Chartwell Master Care LP. Rental/care — nothing to buy, and it is in the City of North Vancouver, not West Vancouver.
  • Kiwanis Manor (independent suites) — 959 21st St (Ambleside): The Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society's page labels it "55+ • WEST VANCOUVER," independent living; the society states most of its seniors communities offer below-market rental housing. The same address also carries a registered assisted-living residence — see the conflict note in the care section.
  • Westerleigh PARC — 725 22nd St (Ambleside/Dundarave edge): PARC Retirement Living's independent-living rental residence at 22nd and Marine Drive, LEED Gold certified, meals, fitness programs and transportation included.
  • Amica West Vancouver — 659 Clyde Ave: Independent living, registered assisted living suites and long-term care in one rental residence; registered in the Assisted Living Registry (class SN), operator WC Operating (Ivy BC) GP Inc.
  • Amica Lions Gate — 701 Keith Rd (Park Royal side): Independent living, assisted living and long-term care suites with Lions Gate Bridge and ocean views; registered in the Assisted Living Registry (class SN) at 701–721 Keith Road, operator WC Operating (Ivy BC) GP Inc.
  • Hollyburn House (Venvi Hollyburn House) — 2095 Marine Dr (Ambleside): Independent living, assisted living, residential care, short-term and respite stays, operated by Cogir Senior Living; registered in the Assisted Living Registry (class SN), legal operator WC Operating (British Columbia - 1) GP Inc.
  • Kiwanis Manor (assisted living) — 959 21st St: sources differ: the Assisted Living Registry lists Kiwanis Manor at this address as a Registered assisted-living residence (class SN) with legal operator "Dundarave Assisted Living Residence Partnership," and Park Place Seniors Living publishes the assisted-living page for it — while the Kiwanis society describes the same address as its own 55+ independent living. Both an independent component and a registered assisted-living component at one address is the reading the sources support.
  • Inglewood Care Centre — 725 Inglewood Ave (Ambleside): Long-term care, 230 publicly funded beds, opened 1979, operated by the Baptist Housing Society (not-for-profit); access through Vancouver Coastal Health.
  • Kiwanis Manor — 959 21st St: is the District's known non-profit below-market seniors rental (Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society; applications year-round).

Streets, schools and getting around Chartwell

  • District-wide land use is guided by the Official Community Plan, Bylaw No. 4985, 2018.
  • The District's civic and recreation core is in Ambleside: the West Vancouver Community Centre and Aquatic Centre at 2121 Marine Drive, West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, the Seniors' Activity Centre at 695 21st Street, and Municipal Hall.
  • The hospital for the District is Lions Gate Hospital, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver (Vancouver Coastal Health), with the North Vancouver Urgent and Primary Care Centre at Suite 200, 221 West Esplanade, North Vancouver.
  • Where the seniors housing actually is: almost everything is in Ambleside. The District's registered assisted-living residences sit at 659 Clyde Ave, 701–721 Keith Rd (Park Royal side), 2095 Marine Dr and 959 21st St; its long-term care home is at 725 Inglewood Ave; its 55+ strata condos are at 1390 Duchess Ave, 843 22nd St and 2110 Marine Dr. Nothing seniors-branded was verified in Dundarave village proper, Caulfeild, Horseshoe Bay or anywhere on the British Properties hillside.

Local rules and plans in Chartwell

  • Retirement residences are regulated differently from strata: assisted-living suites (including Chartwell Churchill House's) are registered with BC's Assisted Living Registry, and publicly funded long-term care (Inglewood's 230 beds) is allocated through Vancouver Coastal Health after an assessment — neither is bought, and neither uses a strata age bylaw. Eligibility is the operator's/health authority's, residence by residence.
  • Zoning: Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010: Houses sit in the RS single-family zones; the apartment and care stock concentrates in the Ambleside town centre under the OCP.
  • OCP: Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4985, 2018, plus the Ambleside Centre Local Area Plan, implemented by provincial order effective April 7, 2026 after the District missed the December 31, 2025 deadline.
  • Property taxes: District of West Vancouver 2026 property taxes were due July 2, 2026, with a 5% penalty on unpaid current taxes on July 2, 2026 and a further 5% on outstanding current taxes on September 2, 2026; water and sewer utilities are metered and billed quarterly.
  • Additional school tax: 0.2% on the residential portion of assessed value between $3 million and $4 million and 0.4% above $4 million for 2026, rising to 0.3% and 0.6% on January 1, 2027 — a routine line item at West Vancouver values.

BC’s 55+ rules (age bylaws, who may live in a unit, exemptions and rentals) apply in every strata and are on the BC 55+ strata rules page.

Good to know about Chartwell

  • The brand and the neighbourhood share a name and nothing else. "Chartwell" in West Vancouver search results is Chartwell Drive and its two schools in the British Properties. Chartwell Retirement Residences has never appeared with a West Vancouver address; its BC residences are organized by city on its own site and West Vancouver is not among them. Any page implying a Chartwell residence in West Vancouver is built on the name collision.
  • Operator brands churn faster than registries. Hollyburn House (2095 Marine Dr) is currently marketed as "Venvi Hollyburn House" by Cogir Senior Living; job postings from the transition period brand it Revera; the Assisted Living Registry's legal operator is "WC Operating (British Columbia - 1) GP Inc." The registry entry, not the brand, is the stable fact to cite.
  • One Ambleside address is claimed by two operators. At 959 21st St, the Kiwanis society describes its own 55+ independent living while the provincial registry lists a registered assisted-living residence under Dundarave Assisted Living Residence Partnership, with Park Place Seniors Living publishing that residence's page. Treat "Kiwanis Manor" as two products at one address until the operators confirm the split.
  • The District's biggest seniors-housing event is a rebuild, not a new brand.
  • All of the District's care capacity is on the Ambleside flat. The four Assisted Living Registry entries, the one long-term care home and all three 55+ strata buildings sit within a few blocks of Marine Drive between Clyde Avenue and 22nd Street. The hillside and the western villages have no registered seniors housing at all — a fact a "West Vancouver seniors" page should state rather than paper over.
  • Chartwell's North Shore foothold is one boutique residence. Churchill House's marketing point — the North Shore's only independent-plus-assisted-living residence under the Chartwell brand — also means a West Vancouver senior who specifically wants Chartwell has exactly one option, and it requires crossing into North Vancouver.

Sources

Facts on this page come from these public sources, read on November 1, 2026. Listing-level pages are not listed.

Chartwell 55+ homes: your questions answered

Is there a Chartwell retirement residence in West Vancouver?

No. Chartwell has no West Vancouver residence. Its only North Shore residence is Chartwell Churchill House, 150 West 29th St in North Vancouver (independent + assisted living, rental). Anyone advertising a "Chartwell in West Vancouver" is confusing the brand with the Chartwell neighbourhood in the British Properties.

What are the Chartwell-style options actually in West Vancouver?

The same product type — rental retirement living with care on site — is offered by Amica West Vancouver (659 Clyde Ave), Amica Lions Gate (701 Keith Rd) and Hollyburn House (2095 Marine Dr), plus independent-living rental at Westerleigh PARC (725 22nd St). All are rental; none is Chartwell, and none is strata ownership.

What 55+ homes can I buy in West Vancouver?

The age-restricted strata set is three Ambleside buildings: Westview Terrace (1390 Duchess Ave), Tudor Gardens (843 22nd St) and Lincoln Gardens (2110 Marine Dr).

Does Chartwell Churchill House let a resident age in place?

That is its stated model: Chartwell markets it as a continuum of care — independent living and assisted living in one residence, so support can be added without moving. It is the North Shore's only Chartwell and, by Chartwell's own description, the North Shore's only residence offering both lifestyles.

Is there below-market seniors rental in West Vancouver?

Yes — Kiwanis Manor, 959 21st St in Ambleside, run by the non-profit Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society as 55+ independent living at below-market rents for most of its communities, applications year-round.

Where is the hospital?

Lions Gate Hospital, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, serves the whole North Shore; Chartwell Churchill House markets itself as five minutes from it.

If I need long-term care, what exists in West Vancouver itself?

Inglewood Care Centre (725 Inglewood Ave), 230 publicly funded beds operated by Baptist Housing Society, allocated through Vancouver Coastal Health — and its approved redevelopment (District approval September 21, 2026) rebuilds it at 364 beds in Phase 1, then adds 200 independent living units and 161 seniors rental units in Phase 2.

What 55+ homes can I buy in West Vancouver, then?

All three are on the Ambleside flat near Marine Drive, not in Chartwell and not on the hillside, and each building's registered age bylaw is confirmed on its Form B.

What are the Chartwell-style options that are actually in West Vancouver?

The same product type — rental retirement living with care on site — is offered by Amica West Vancouver at 659 Clyde Avenue, Amica Lions Gate at 701 Keith Road and Hollyburn House at 2095 Marine Drive, with independent-living rental at Westerleigh PARC. All are rental, none is Chartwell, and none is strata ownership, so the comparison is between tenancy and care agreements, not purchase contracts.

Where is the hospital, and where would long-term care be?

Lions Gate Hospital at 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, serves the whole North Shore under Vancouver Coastal Health.

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More Chartwell real estate

Chartwell 55+ Homes: streets and boundaries

  • The name does two different jobs, and separating them is the point of this page: Chartwell Elementary at 1300 Chartwell Drive is a West Vancouver Schools elementary school in the neighbourhood, while Chartwell Retirement Residences is a retirement-home operator with no residence in West Vancouver.
  • District-wide land use in West Vancouver is guided by the Official Community Plan, Bylaw No. 4985, 2018, and the seniors housing that serves the District is not in Chartwell at all — it is in Ambleside, on the Marine Drive flat below the British Properties hillside.
  • The District's civic and recreation core is in Ambleside: the West Vancouver Community Centre and Aquatic Centre at 2121 Marine Drive, West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, and the Seniors' Activity Centre at 695 21st Street.

Chartwell 55+ Homes: the housing stock

  • Chartwell Retirement Residences operates no residence in West Vancouver: the company's own British Columbia residence finder lists its homes by city, no West Vancouver residence appears, and its only North Shore residence is Chartwell Churchill House at 150 West 29th Street, North Vancouver, in the City of North Vancouver.
  • Churchill House is a rental retirement residence offering independent living and assisted living — nothing to buy, and not in the municipality this page is about.
  • The rental retirement residences that serve the District are Amica West Vancouver at 659 Clyde Avenue, Amica Lions Gate at 701 Keith Road and Hollyburn House at 2095 Marine Drive, plus independent-living rental at Westerleigh PARC, 725 22nd Street, and Kiwanis Manor at 959 21st Street, a non-profit 55+ independent-living building operated by the Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society.

Chartwell 55+ Homes: rules that affect buyers

  • West Vancouver zoning is Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010: the single-family zones in section 200 set minimum site areas from 488 square metres in RS5 to 8,094 square metres in RS1, with secondary suites and detached secondary suites permitted — the Chartwell hillside is large-lot single-family zoning, not apartment zoning.
  • Assisted-living suites in the Ambleside residences are registered with British Columbia's Assisted Living Registry, and publicly funded long-term care is allocated through Vancouver Coastal Health after an assessment — neither is bought, and neither uses a strata age bylaw.

Chartwell 55+ Homes: local details a buyer would not know

  • All of the District's care capacity is on the Ambleside flat: the registered assisted-living residences, the one long-term care home and all three 55+ strata buildings sit within a few blocks of Marine Drive between Clyde Avenue and 22nd Street, and the hillside and western villages have no registered seniors housing.
  • One Ambleside address carries two products: at 959 21st Street the Kiwanis society describes its own 55+ independent living, while a registered assisted-living residence at the same address is published by another operator — treat Kiwanis Manor as two products at one address until the operators confirm the split.
  • Operator brands change faster than registries: Hollyburn House at 2095 Marine Drive is currently marketed under a different brand name than its Assisted Living Registry legal operator, so the registry entry, not the brand, is the stable fact to cite.

Chartwell 55+ Homes: getting around

  • Marine Drive is the District's east–west corridor: the Ambleside seniors cluster, the community centre, the library and the Seniors' Activity Centre all sit on or just off Marine Drive and 21st Street, and Lions Gate Bridge at the District's east end is the crossing to Vancouver.
  • A Chartwell hillside address has no transit station and no seniors building on its own streets: the services a 55+ buyer uses are reached by descending to the Ambleside flat, which is where the District itself concentrates its recreation and seniors facilities.

Chartwell 55+ Homes: risks and due diligence

  • The primary risk on this page is a name-collision risk: a buyer who searches the operator name and lands on a hillside house, or who searches the neighbourhood name and expects a residence, is reading two different subjects, and the civic address and the operator's own finder are the checks that separate them.
  • For a hillside lot, confirm the zone and minimum site area in Zoning Bylaw No. 4662 section 200 and look the parcel up in the District's mapping before assuming a suite, a detached secondary suite or a subdivision is available, because RS zone minimums in the British Properties range up to 8,094 square metres in RS1.

How Chartwell 55+ Homes compares

Chartwell 55+ Homes compared
FactChartwell / West VancouverEdgemont (District of North Vancouver)North Vancouver (City)
Chartwell residence presentNoNoYes — Churchill House, 150 West 29th Street
Verified owned 55+ strataThree Ambleside buildings——
HospitalLions Gate Hospital, 231 East 15th Street, North VancouverLions Gate HospitalLions Gate Hospital

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