Plans have been lodged for a new 72-bed care home in Northwich. The proposed three-storey development is earmarked for land off Chester Way.
Applicant Morrison Community Care Group is behind the scheme which features 27 car parking spaces – including four EV charging points, four disabled spots and 10 bicycle spaces – and open space “exclusively available to residents and visitors”. The project would create around 100 jobs.
In the planning application submitted to Cheshire West and Chester Council, its states: “The application site lies to the east of the town centre of Northwich. To the immediate north is Chester Way, and residential and mixed-use development surrounds the site to the east, south and west. The site is single, irregularly shaped area with overgrowth, self-seeded shrubbery and a number of trees with hedgerows along the northern boundary.
“The character of the site is heavily influenced by the surrounding development, particularly the residential development to the east. The specialist accommodation will provide significant social and economic benefits through significant employment in both the construction and operational phases of the development.”
It adds: “The provision of much needed care housing to meet the needs of older people is an important social benefit of the development proposal, and will also result in reduced isolation and loneliness which is a widespread concern for a large section of older people. The development proposal also includes an element of care which is likely to have wider benefits to local GPs and hospitals through a decrease in admissions.
“With regards to economic impacts, the development proposal will create local employment, both in the construction phase through the need for local workers and materials and the indirect impacts that this brings, but also significantly in the creation of employment in facilitating the on-site services in the region of around 100 employees.
“Furthermore, these employees will bring increased spending to the local and neighbourhood area, thus supporting the vitality of Northwich through the increased use of the nearby services.”
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