New opening
Aston Manor Care Home: creating ‘A Better Everyday’ in Aylesbury
Harrington Care Homes opened its inaugural care home – Aston Manor Care Home – in Aylesbury in October 2025. The Care Home Environment editor Matt Seex visited the following month to chat with Harrington Care Homes’ director Rishi Dhamecha about how this impressive new home represents a clear statement of intent for the new provider
The 86-bedroom Aston Manor Care Home is located on the greenfield Aston Reach development on the eastern outskirts of Aylesbury – the county town of Buckinghamshire, and one boasting a history dating back to the Iron Age – close to the A41, which links the town to the M25 and London. Harrington Care Homes is the sister
company of Only Care Limited – a family- run care provider established in 2007 which owns and operates five homes in the East Midlands. Director Rishi Dhamecha tells me that the ambition of Aston Manor – and the establishment of Harrington Care Homes – was to apply years of experience in the care sector to create a premium new brand,
with homely environments and a touch of hospitality. “Our North Star is ‘A Better Everyday’,”
he says. Already, the provider’s next project – a
new build Woodley Grange in Wokingham, Berkshire (due to open early 2027) – is well underway, while Harrington’s third home will see an extensive refurbishment of an existing building, whereby the existing structure will be retained while the interior will be completely redeveloped. This third home is also expected to open in 2027. When it came to the location of Aston
Manor, it was very much a case of right place, right time, as Rishi explains. “We were, to some extent, guided by
opportunity,” he says. “We initially acquired this site with a plan that allowed for 72 square meters per resident, which is quite substantial. However, we subsequently revised the plans, opting to eliminate the basement and redistribute its functions – including back-of-house operations, training and conference facilities, and staff areas – to the far-left side of the building. As a result, the plant room is located on the ground floor, the laundry occupies the middle floor, and the kitchen is situated on the top floor, with direct ventilation to the roof. The advantage of this arrangement is that the vibrations and noise generated by these facilities are effectively contained within the building’s structure, ensuring that residents
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