Specialist developer Charterpoint and LNT Care Developments have submitted plans for a 66-bedroom care home at Westcombe Park, the garden suburb near Maldon in Essex.

The joint application to Maldon District Council is for a purpose-built, three-storey care home, including associated access, parking and landscaping.

It features accommodation with en-suite facilities, residents’ lounges and dining areas, a café for residents and visitors to enjoy, a reception area, staff facilities, and 25 car parking spaces, including six electric car charging spaces, as well as ambulance and taxi drop-off points. A secure cycle store will also be provided.

The care home has been designed to provide general residential care and residential dementia care.

It includes a range of sustainability features such as glazed areas to maximise access to natural light and minimise energy requirements for lighting and heating in communal areas, low energy luminaires and occupancy sensors to reduce energy use, high levels of insulation, and a ground source heat pump system and solar photovoltaic panels to provide heating and power to the building which would generate more than 70% of the facility’s energy requirements from renewable sources, with a reduction in carbon emissions.

Between 50-60 jobs are expected to be created, with up to a maximum of 24 members of staff on site at any one time due to shift patterns.

The care home is part of a wider proposal for a neighbourhood centre being delivered by Charterpoint Group consisting of later living apartments, health centre, convenience store and other retail units, and a day nursery at Westcombe Park which already have outline planning permission and will be subject to detailed planning applications in due course.

Giles Nursey, MD of Charterpoint, said:

“The proposed care home has been sympathetically designed to provide modern, high quality and sustainable care facilities and to fit in with future development at Westcombe Park. It features a pleasant landscaped setting and has good access to public transport, amenities and local services. In due course, it will benefit from new neighbourhood centre amenities as part of the wider Westcombe Park masterplan."

“Alongside LNT Care Developments, Charterpoint is very pleased to have submitted a detailed planning application for a care home on this site, which will be an asset to the local community.”

The proposed care home is part of the mixed-use development of Westcombe Park, a sustainable urban extension to the north of Heybridge set over 418 acres.

Countryside, now part of the Vistry Group, is the master developer of the project, which includes more than 1, 000 homes, with 30% affordable, new community facilities, a proposed new primary school and nursery, new parks, play areas, sports pitches and allotments, plus a new relief road, footpaths and cycleways.

Martin Leach, Managing Director, Vistry Major Projects, said:

‘Providing the facilities and infrastructure that residents need to build sustainable and long-lasting communities plays a critical role in our masterplanning approach and this proposed new care home will be a valuable addition to Westcombe Park. We look forward to seeing the continued evolution of this vibrant new community.”

Next to the historic town of Maldon, Westcombe Park is an outstanding new community of stylish new homes set in a glorious location.

Charterpoint, which is based at Edwalton near Nottingham, specialises in developing mixed-use and sustainable housing schemes, first-class senior living accommodation, and primary care premises.

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