PLANS to build a £10m development in Westbrook, including an Aldi supermarket and a specialist care home, have been submitted.

Seven retail units, including an Aldi supermarket and a coffee shop, plus a 44-bed care facility will be built on 5,106sq m of land bounded by Cromwell Avenue, Westbrook Crescent and Westbrook Way in the plans are approved.

The mooted Delta Retail Park development would create a total of 200 jobs in the area.

Joanna Gabrilatsou, from planning consultants JLL, said: “This is a really exciting scheme for Warrington and put together the two parts of the development will help to provide a much-needed specialist residential care facility and improve shopping choice for local people.

“Warrington is becoming an incredibly attractive place for investment and the significant number of jobs that would be created would provide a real boost to the local economy.”

Constructed to the north of the current Asda Westbrook site and accessed via Westbrook Crescent, the residential facility would provide specialist multi-disciplinary care for people who have acquired long-term mental health and neurological conditions after suffering brain injuries.

The scheme, which will be run by an independent company, is intended as a step-down from hospital care in order to get those affected back into the community.

Patrick Gorman from Seddon Care Partnerships Limited, who will build the home if plans are approved, said that residents currently have to travel up to 50 miles to get such care.

He said: “If built this new facility in Warrington would enable us to offer valuable support to people with acquired brain injuries, learning disabilities, mental ill-health and other complex needs – it will help people to learn to live independently and stay in their local area.

“Currently many local people are being sent outside of their area so the new facility would allow our residents to be closer to their family and friends while at the same time receiving the latest, high-quality, innovative care that can be offered.”

A consultation on the planning application will run until Tuesday, November 22.