£12m care home set to bring 80 jobs to Birmingham
A £12m care home opens its doors at the Edgbaston Medical Quarter in Birmingham next month.
The Pebble Mill Bupa Care Home, built on the site of the iconic BBC studios, is a purpose-built 62-bedroom home.
The new home has created 80 jobs with nurses, carers, activity co-ordinators and managers filling the new roles.
The home, part of Bupa’s ‘ Select’ collection, will feature a rooftop terrace, a landscaped garden with dining area and pizza oven, a beauty salon and a multi-purpose activities room.
Gareth Richards, general manager at the Pebble Mill Bupa Care Home, said: “The home features cutting edge design whilst incorporating the facilities (and) standards of care for which Bupa is renowned.
“It’s been a huge, but incredibly rewarding project. To see everything happen, from the initial design to the building itself, and to witness first-hand the thought, care and effort that has gone into making it such a striking building has been tremendously exciting.”
The building is located within a healthcare community, which includes Birmingham Dental Hospital and a Circle Private Hospital (scheduled to open 2019). It will feature 26 nursing rooms, 26 rooms for people living with dementia, and 10 residential rooms with en-suite bathrooms.
Each floor in the three-storey building reflects the site’s history, with parts of a TV studio, and artworks within the home paying homage to the former TV centre.
The centre was the home of news Midlands Today and BBC WM, with famous programmes made there including Top Gear, Gardeners’ World, Pebble Mill at One and Saturday Night at the Mill. The studios closed in 2004 and were demolished in 2005.
Mr Richards added: “We’re very proud of the history associated with the site, and we were keen to reflect that whilst developing a thoroughly modern home in a lovely part of the city.”
