Operator acquires two new luxury care homes

HARTFORD Care has acquired two newly built state-of-the-art residential care homes in Aldershot, Hampshire and Swindon, Wiltshire.

Each home will offer 66 bedrooms and they have been designed with sustainability in mind, with significant renewable energy elements including solar panels, heat pumps and battery storage systems.

Kevin Shaw, chief executive of Hartford Care, said: “We’re extremely pleased to acquire these two care homes and it now brings us to 18 homes with more than 850 bedrooms.

“We are well on our way to achieving our goal to double in size within three years. Aldershot will be our sixth care home in Hampshire and Swindon our second in Wiltshire.”

The new homes have been developed by LNT Care Developments, a specialist in delivering future-proofed, operationally carbon-zero care homes that are designed around residents and operators.

Aldershot will be ready to open its doors to residents in March, with Swindon to follow in August; both homes will offer residential, dementia and respite care.

Established in 1908, Hartford Care’s head office is based in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

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“The new purpose-built care home will include all the clinical facilities needed to provide highquality personalised care, set within a contemporary and warm environment, so that residents can feel at home from the moment they move in.

“This will truly be a facility that the whole community can be proud of, and I would like to thank the NL Property team for their support to complete the deal.”

The 74-bed luxury home will also feature a spacious café bistro, a private dining room, a hair salon and nail bar, activity room/bar, a cinema, spacious resident lounges, dining rooms, quiet lounges, gymnasium and a sensory room.

Nigel Berney, NL Property’s CEO, said: “Working closely with Hamberley and Waverley Borough Council we are delighted to be part of bringing this much needed state-ofthe-art care facility to the area.

“This is another example of NL Property’s attention to detail when delivering care homes that provide residents a comfortable stay in unique environments.”

Apartments sold to operator

COMMERCIAL developer Peveril

Securities and senior living developer Charterpoint have sold a site in Beeston, Nottingham to specialist retirement living developer Churchill Retirement Living.

Last year the site received planning permission for a development of 51 retirement living apartments from Broxtowe Borough Council.

Churchill’s regional managing director Robert Monkman said: “We’re looking forward to starting work on this new development, which will create a vibrant new community in the heart of Beeston.

“Retirement housing is the most effective form of residential development for generating local economic growth, supporting local jobs, and increasing high street spend.

“Our new apartments will also help improve the health and wellbeing of those who live there, and meet the housing needs of many older people in Beeston and the surrounding area.

“We are actively looking for more new sites like this to bring much needed retirement housing to the wider Midlands region.”

Situated on a mixed-use site, on land previously occupied by the former Myford Works, the scheme will feature one and two-bed apartments, plus communal owners’ lounge and coffee bar, along with a guest suite and a lodge manager.

The apartments are part of a wider development on the site which also includes Myford Court, a new development of penthouses and apartments by Peveril Homes, a Central England Co-op store, which opened in May 2020, and a 66-bed care home to be operated by Tanglewood Care Services.

This scheme will mark the completion of the 4.5-acre brownfield regeneration site.