Plans for £12.5m veterans care village unveiled

CGI of the new Broughton House Veterans Care Village. Credit: Levitt Bernstein.

Plans are being put forward for a £12.5m Veterans Care Village at Broughton House in Salford.

Broughton House is the only home for ex-servicemen and women in the North West and in 2016 it celebrated its centenary.

Plans for the new village will be submitted to Salford City Council this month and are expected to be considered by the planning, building and regeneration committee in September.

If permission is granted, work on the scheme is due to start early next year. A public consultation exercise is currently underway.

The redevelopment of the two-acre site will be partially paid for through a £3m grant from LIBOR funding, a government initiative to redistribute the proceeds of banking fines. Fundraising by Broughton House is ongoing.

The Broughton House Veterans Care Village is planned to be completed by 2020 and will include 64 nursing home bedrooms with a dementia wing, 34 independent living apartments, a military support hub featuring an advice centre, gym, treatment rooms, café, hair salon and meeting rooms.

There would also be a a memorial park with a cenotaph and remembrance walls and landscaped gardens featuring an all-weather bowling green and a bandstand.

Dooley Associates will manage the delivery of the scheme. The project team also includes architects Levitt Bernstein, structural engineers Curtins Consulting, service engineers Building Services Design, landscape architect Exterior Architecture, fire engineers Omega Fire and acoustician Sandy Brown.

Ty Platten, chief executive of Broughton House, said: “We are committed to providing a safe and secure community for military veterans and, subject to planning permission, the new development will deliver a state-of-the-art care village for the north west.

“As the north west’s only home delivering dedicated veteran care for over a century in recognition of the sacrifices of ex- servicemen and women, the need to expand our level of care is paramount to meet the growing and changing needs of veterans both now and in the future.

“We are immensely grateful for the support shown for the scheme to date and look forward to working with the Greater Manchester public, and all relevant parties, to bring our vision to fruition, and together we hope to serve veterans for the next 100 years.”

 

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