New opening


Wyrley Rose: a community ethos blooms in Staffordshire


Macc Care opened Wyrley Rose, its fifteenth care home, in June. The Care Home Environment editor Matt Seex visited the village of Great Wyrley in Staffordshire to find out more about this impressive new home and its strong links with the local community


The 90-bedroom Wyrley Rose – Midlands- based Macc Care Group’s fifteenth development to date – is also the provider’s largest. Having officially opened on 2 June, I visited the home on a hot, sunny day later that same month – with Wyrley Rose already home to an initial intake of five residents – to chat to the Macc Care team, and enjoy a tour of its comprehensive range of facilities. Offering residential, dementia, respite, and nursing care across its three floors, Wyrley Rose can be found on Walsall Road in Great Wyrley, a small village located a few miles north of both Wolverhampton and Walsall, and some twenty miles distant of Birmingham city centre. Having been mentioned in the Domesday Book, Great Wyrley (distinguished by its ‘Great’ prefix from the nearby hamlet of Little Wyrley) was once notable as a successful mining village, making use of the now largely defunct Wyrley and Essington Canal, which, in its prime, linked Wolverhampton and Lichfield. Prior to the construction of Wyrley Rose, the sizeable plot of land on which it now stands was the location of a Victorian Primary School. Following the closure of the school, the site operated as a Community Support Centre, under the ownership of Staffordshire County Council. According to Macc Care, the build went smoothly: ‘The build finished on time and to budget. There were no issues with the build; it was properly pre-planned with


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contingencies as with all Macc Care builds, given the experience within the business of developing new homes.’ From the road, the impressive size of this


90-bed home is not immediately apparent, but driving into the car park reveals the expansive nature of the development, which encompasses not just Wyrley Rose itself, but also Wyrley Court – a ‘contemporary development of 32 one- and two-bedroom private apartments located in the heart of Great Wyrley, designed exclusively for the over 55s’ – and the Haven Café – intended by the provider as something of a social hub, and as such open not only to Wyrley Rose and Wyrley Court residents, but also their families and friends and – crucially – the wider local community.


According to Macc Care Group’s director


Bhav Amlani: “Wyrley Rose marks an exciting new chapter for Macc Care. As our largest home to date, it reflects our ongoing


A great deal of interest has come from the people of Great Wyrley


commitment to delivering outstanding care within purpose-built environments that truly feel like home. “We know communities across the Midlands are facing rising demand for high-quality, accessible care, particularly for individuals living with complex or evolving needs. Wyrley Rose has been designed to help bridge that gap, offering compassionate, clinically informed care within a supportive and stimulating setting.”


A keystone of the community


Chatting to customer relationship manager Soni Atwal, clinical deputy manager Amanda Hall, and group new homes director and chief nurse Charlotte Quatery, it is clear that Wyrley House is very much intended to form a key component of the local community in Great Wyrley. The team tells me that there had been some anxiety in the community over such a large plot of land having been left vacant for an extended period of time, and that, at the Wyrley Rose open day, when the team spoke to visiting Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) who had previously patrolled the site, they were told that they were “really, really


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