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Audley picks Graham to build 110-acre retirement village in West Yorkshire
Audley Group has appointed Graham to lead on the construction of a 110-acre retirement village in West Yorkshire. Once complete, Audley Scarcroft Park will be home to 22 cottages and 106 two-bedroom apartments. Located at heart of the desirable ‘Golden Triangle’ formed by Ilkley, Harrogate and York, this project will be the third site on which Audley Group has partnered with Graham. Audley Scarcroft Park will provide property
owners and the local community to Audley Club facilities, including restaurant, health spa with hydrotherapy pool, gym and wellness studio.
The village will also offer delivery of care to
both owners and the local community through Audley Care, Audley’s stand-alone Care Quality Commission-registered care provider. “The close collaboration with Audley and the design team throughout this journey from
early design to contract execution has been another success story for Graham, Audley and the design team. We very much look forward to building on this success,” said Jonathan Hall, managing director (England) at Graham. Preparatory groundwork began on the
site last year, including the demolition of the 70,000 square-feet 1970s office block, and the work now begins on the construction of 18 new buildings and start the restoration of Grade II listed Scarcroft Lodge. The start of the construction comes after Fortwell Capital, a principal lender to developers and investors in the UK and Ireland, financed a £52.1m loan facility to the joint venture (JV) between Audley Group and Schroders Capital’s UK Retirement Living Fund (ReLF) advised by Octopus Real Estate, to support the development of Scarcroft Park. The village will be the fourth village
planned through the joint venture agreement. Audley Group development director Philip Rolfe said: “The pandemic has brought the need for these types of villages to the fore; where property owners can maintain independence while also having a community and the option of care and wellbeing facilities on the doorstep.”
Farrans bags construction contract for £50m Central Bedfordshire senior living village
Farrans Construction has been awarded the build contract for a £50m senior living village in Flitwick, Bedfordshire. The contract from Central Bedfordshire Council is for a 72-bed care home, eight-bed short stay unit and 88 independent living apartments for the over-55s. The core building is designed by architects
Oliver and Robb and will meet dementia- friendly guidelines and the best of energy performance standards, known as Passivhaus, help reduce the local authority’s energy demands.
The scheme will also have private
recreational facilities, including a shared resident-only lounge and roof gardens, alongside shared community facilities like a café, bistro, salon, function rooms and dedicated space for the use of health professionals. The 55 one-bedroom and 33 two-bedroom apartments will be designed for accessibility and to be adaptable to changing needs. While all apartments will be suitable for
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wheelchair users, five of the apartments are designed to the higher wheelchair standard as a response to the limited availability of dwellings of this type.
The apartment building has been designed to build a sense of community and friendship between residents and the wider community. Each resident will have their own front door with options to access care according to their needs. Farrans will kick off work on the site next month with the care home and independent living apartments due to complete in autumn 2023.
Castlemeadow Care gets green light for £30m Suffolk care complex
Castlemeadow Care has secured planning permission for the development of a £30m care complex in Halesworth, East Suffolk. East Suffolk Council granted consent
for a 54-bed care home adjacent to 100 retirement apartments on the site of the former Halesworth Middle School. The state-of the-art care home will
be designed in six self-contained areas with nine bedrooms. Short and full-time residential care will be provided, including support for people living with dementia. The home will also have a range of communal living areas, dining rooms, administration areas, on-site staff accommodation as well as a dedicated training centre, where staff will be offered learning and development opportunities. Landscaping at the care home will be
sympathetic to the landscape and there will be private terraces for residents, extensive walkways, seating areas and raised beds with sensory plants and flowers, creating relaxing spaces for residents and their families to sit and enjoy the surroundings.
The new care home and apartments
are expected to bring over 100 job opportunities to the local area with the first residents occupying late summer of 2023.
Designed by architects Feilden &
Mawson, the one- and two-bed apartments will be built in two phases, with accessible accommodation, large courtyard gardens and planting beds for residents to use for their own garden, with accompanying communal areas.
At the heart of the site will be a central plaza, linking the apartments which will be used for community events. The development will be sensitive to environmental aspects, using sustainable rain gardens that will be used for irrigation of the site, creating a natural feel to all areas.
“The care home and the apartments will bring much needed accommodation and support to people, and we are committed to creating a beautiful care home and luxury apartments in a natural and relaxing setting,” said Castlemeadow Care director Dr. Sanjay Kaushal.
www.thecarehomeenvironment.com February 2022
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