CM New Developments

Two residential care homes in Torquay, Devon have been sold to local operator Beechcroft Care Homes. The 21-bed and 24-bed homes provide old age and dementia care. Beechcroft has already begun plans to upgrade and modernise the two homes.

Community Care Market News (News) August 1999 Help the Aged has published a report which argues that current housing and support services...

Working with construction firm Rofft Developments, care provider Pendine Park has applied for planning permission to build 21 extra care apartments for older people in Wrexham. Work on the £3m project will begin immediately if plans are approved by Wrexham county borough council, with residents due to move in by the summer of 2015.

Keepmoat has started work on a £12.4m extra care housing development in Darwen, Lancashire for people over the age of 50 who have assessed...

Social housing provider, bpha, has announced the completion of a £4.8m extra care housing scheme for elderly and disabled people in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Florence Court, which will be managed by the Orders of St John Care Trust, has 40, two bedroom extra care flats for the elderly, two, three bedroom supported living bungalows for people with learning disabilities, plus social, recreation and medical treatment facilities. The scheme, which was constructed by Leadbitter Group, replaces a Wiltshire council hostel which had been on the site since the 1960s.

Castleoak has completed a £40m project with The Fremantle Trust and Buckinghamshire county council to improve the quality of accommodation for older people and adults with learning disabilities across the county. Seven old care homes were redeveloped and a new home built, creating 600 new bed spaces in the homes, which typically cater for 60 to 90 people.

Planning permission has been granted to Restful Homes Group to construct a 70-bed care home in Sherbourne, Dorset. Designed in an Arts and Crafts style,...

Octopus Healthcare’s open-ended UK healthcare real estate fund, which focuses on UK elderly care homes, has raised £85m. Originally the MedicX Healthfund, the investment vehicle...

Funds raised from the introduction of the social care precept have failed to cover the cost of implementing the National Living Wage (NLW), the...

The Abbeyfield Kent Society has opened a new dementia wing at its Greensted care home in Wateringbury, Maidstone. It extends existing facilities at the home by adding a new dining room with seating area, lounge and kitchen specifically designed for service users with the disease.