Work starts on retirement complex at former conferencing venue
WORK is set to start on the redevelopment of a former Birmingham conferencing and events venue into a new retirement complex.
Edgbaston Care Homes – part of the Cinnamon Care Homes – is responsible for the scheme, which is based on the site of the former Clarendon Suites masonic lodge conference and banqueting site on Stirling Road, Edgbaston.
Permission has been granted to demolish the existing buildings and replace them with the new retirement development, which will comprise four separate buildings including 99 apartments, 19 assisted living properties, and a 60-bedroom care home, including central amenities and facilities.
Residential land development and planning promotion business Terra Strategic worked with the company and Birmingham City Council to secure planning permission.
Mark Booth, managing director of Terra Strategic, said: “Following its (Clarendon) closure in 2014 and our subsequent acquisition, we wanted to breathe new life into the former masonic lodge site, regenerating the area whilst responding to a local need.
“We completed the purchase of the site in August 2015 and went on to secure an outline planning approval for 84 houses and apartments, before exchanging contracts with Edgbaston Care Homes, which has, in turn, secured detailed planning approval for a new retirement village.”
The care home is planned as an L-shaped building of four to five storeys and would be situated adjacent to Hagley Road and part of Clarendon Road. The care home will provide care to patients in individual rooms, each of which will have en-suite facilities.
The ground floor of the care home would include communal facilities including restaurant, cinema, library, IT suite, gym, consulting/treatment rooms, hairdressers and cafe.
The 19 Assisted Living apartments (ALA) will consist of 15 one-bed units and four two-bed units. The, which will be connected to the care home, will offer a lower level of care than that provided in the more focussed care home.
The 99 care apartments would comprise: 17 one bed, 81 two beds and one three bed units. The two bed units would be on average 64sqm (with bedrooms 8.3sqm and 14.3sqm). The one bed units would be on average 54sqm (with bedroom of 12.7sqm). This facility would provide the lowest level of care and the most independent form of living in the care village.
