A new 70-bed care home for people with dementia is being proposed in a village near Bath.
The plans have been submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council for the Greenhill House site at Timsbury, that was previously a 37-bed Leonard Cheshire Disability home.
The scheme also includes 13 assisted living/extra care flats for those who need that type of supported accommodation but are not yet ready to move into a care home.
The applicant is First Timsbury Ltd, a company owned by Mitesh Dhanak, who has been in the care sector for more than 25 years, operating award-winning care homes and supported living services around the UK.
The proposals aim to retain, refurbish and repurpose the three-storey Georgian house into seven assisted living/extra care flats and demolish and replace the ad hoc care home buildings that date from the late 1970s and early 1980s with “modern, future-proofed, sustainable and energy-efficient buildings of high quality”.
Facilities will include a café, bistro, central hub, a shop for residents, hair salon, hydrotherapy, lounges, private dining and a terrace.
A new detached block of six assisted living/extra care flats is also proposed in the grounds.
The plans also include improvements to the main existing access via Loves Hill.
A total of 31 car parking spaces and the same number of cycle spaces are proposed.
The planning reference is 25/03014/FUL. The deadline for comments is 12th September.
