Care home plans for former car park site

Cannock town centre is to benefit from significant investment with the opening of a new nursing home for adults living with complex needs. 

Midlands-based Deeley Group, headquartered in Coventry, has partnered with national health care provider Exemplar Health Care to transform Cannock Chase Council’s former Avon Road Car Park, opposite the Asda supermarket, into a 33-bedroom care home. 

Exemplar Health Care, which will own and operate the home once built, is funding the £6m  investment.

Work on the new three storey building which includes communal living space, sensory bathrooms, a therapy room, car park and gardens, is expected to start shortly. Once open the home will create around 100 new jobs.

The land had been earmarked for sale in the Cannock Town Centre Development Prospectus. Planning Permission was granted to Deeley Group earlier this year, securing much needed new care facilities in the local community.

Leader of the Council Tony Johnson said: “This is a very welcome investment into our town centre and fulfils a real need within the Cannock community for complex nursing care that allows people to be independent yet have their complex healthcare needs well supported – and in a location close to amenities.  

“We are delighted that Deeley Group and Exemplar Health Care have shown confidence in Cannock and decided to invest in our town centre, attracted by Avon Road Car Park’s inclusion in our prospectus launched a few years ago.

“The prospectus outlines land in the town centre available for development and complements work underway to create an exciting new leisure hub around the theatre and nearby Church Street as part of the £20 million Levelling Up Fund support from the government announced in 2021.”

Eleanor Deeley, joint managing director of the Deeley Group, said: “This development will transform a redundant brownfield site into an important nursing home which will provide vital care for people living with complex needs in Cannock.

“This will be the fourth development we have worked on in partnership with Exemplar Health Care and we are proud to be creating this new care home which will also contribute to the wider regeneration of Cannock town centre.”