Care home decision due tonight

7:00am Thursday 7th March 2013 in News

The meeting will be staged at The Parr Hall The meeting will be staged at The Parr Hall

A DECISION over plans for a major dementia care unit in Penketh could finally be made tonight, Thursday.

The Warrington Guardian reported in December an application for a specialist home on Station Road could be approved if wrangles over parking problems are resolved.

The matter was set to be discussed during a development management committee meeting in January but did not make it on to the agenda as additional information has not yet been received by the council.

If approved, the existing care home at Three Elms will be developed by applicant Abbotsford Care Ltd but neighbours expressed fears this would cause traffic and parking problems.

Comments(2)

Paris says...
8:35am Thu 7 Mar 13

I'm all in favour of specialist care homes for dementia patients. With the number of people suffering from this condition and the expected growth in the next 20 years, it just shows that more and more if these units are needed. Lets hope they are managed well with fully trained staff to ensure that all future residents live a happy comfortable life. Dementia/Alzheimer's is a terrible disease and as an illness that you cannot see, seems so much harder to accept!

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WH Smith says...
8:31am Sun 10 Mar 13

Looks as though the planning committee made a decision based on fact rather than heart strings on Thursday evening. They refused this application

Whilst dementia care is quite rightly an emotive subject, there are clearly a large number of empty beds in the Warrington area and so that being the case, there is clearly not enough current need for another care unit.

There are a couple of sites already approved for dementia care within striking distance of this site, which have not been built and there are also empty care home properties (or previous care home properties) that could easily be used before a new building is erected in the Green Belt, to address a need that clearly has not been demonstrtaed to exist.

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