Ellesmere Port: New 66-bed care home could create up to 60 jobs

The care home for older people is proposed for land off Lloyd Drive, where a previous application for a care home secured planning permission.

Applicants LNT Care Developments says the proposed new three-storey care home would be a purpose-built residential care facility with associated access, parking and landscaping.

Artist's impressions of what the proposed 66-bed care home could look like in Ellesmere Port. Image: LNT Care Developments planning document.

The company says it is responsible for developing over 220 care homes nationwide, specifically for the care of older people, working with it own in-house operating business Danforth Care Homes.

The applicants added, in a planning statement, the 'net zero' building would "function as an important local community facility and is intended to be occupied and staffed by local people, or people with a local connection".

Each single-room accommodation would come with en-suite wetroom facilities in a 3,083 sq m building, with a total of 25 parking spaces, including two accessible, six electric vehicle charging spaces and eight cycle spaces.

Artist's impressions of what the proposed 66-bed care home could look like in Ellesmere Port. Image: LNT Care Developments planning document.

Facilities include main lounges/dining rooms, a café, quiet lounges/family rooms, a garden room, a TV/cinema room, a sky car, clinic and a hair salon.

The applicants added up to 60 jobs would be created from the development.

So far the application has received two comments from residents, who each had concerns about the proposed development not being in keeping with other buildings in the area, and that nearby residents' privacy would be compromised. They also said there were insufficient car parking spaces in the proposal.

Comments on the application can be made on the council's planning portal by May 22.