Oakham care home to create 90 jobs
Larkfleet Homes has sold land to a specialist provider for the development of a care unit as part of the ‘continuing care retirement community’ (CCRC) which the company is creating in Oakham, Rutland.
A 60-bed specialist care home will be developed over the next 12 months, creating 90 jobs.
The CCRC will have 62 one and two-bedroom homes for ‘independent living’ and 54 properties for ‘assisted living’ for people with particular care needs. These will be built by Larkfleet under its The Croft brand for retirement properties.
Larkfleet started clearance work on site earlier this year is set to install the infrastructure. The first homes by The Croft should be available for new owners during the Spring of 2019.
Larkfleet Homes chief executive Karl Hick said: “This is a big step forward for the project and allows us to advance development of this much-needed facility in Oakham. There is an urgent need for this type of accommodation to meet the needs of the increasing number of elderly people in the county.
“Putting independent living, assisted living and care home provision on the same site means that if people need to move from one type of accommodation to another as their care needs increase, they do not have to move away from family, friends and the social networks that they have built up. It can mean, for example, that if one half of a couple needs to move into the care home, his or her partner can remain in the independent living part of the development within easy walking distance.”
The CCRC is part of Larkfleet’s Oakham Heights development – a major urban expansion of Oakham being built on land between the Oakham bypass and Barleythorpe Road.
In total, more than 800 high quality homes – including ‘affordable’ homes for local people – will eventually be constructed in several phases at Oakham Heights as part of a development programme running until around 2027.
