£6.9m care home in Oswestry is starting to take shape
Oswestry's new £6.9 million care home is beginning to take shape, with developers confident it will be completed by spring.
Bosses at Coverage Care Services have released aerial shots of New Fairholme, which is being constructed on Shrewsbury Road, showing the scale of the ambitious project. The new building will replace the existing Fairholme care home which is on the town's Morda Road.
Once it is open it will provide 88 en-suite rooms offering residential and nursing care.
Bosses say it has been designed to meet changing care requirements with a greater range of support.
The landmark building will have more than double the space for residents and support services than its current one.
About 40 residents from Fairholme will transfer to the new site when it opens.
Construction is being carried out by Wrexham-based Castlemead Group.
Scaffolding
During the summer months the building was made watertight and the scaffolding was recently removed.
Chief executive of Coverage Care Services, David Coull, said: "You could call New Fairholme an exemplar for the next generation of care homes.
"It has been designed with the changing landscape for care needs in mind. It will allow us to provide Oswestry residents with the very best services when they need them, as well as creating jobs and economically supporting the community it is part of.
"As a not-for-profit organisation we exist to provide a full range of services for older people and this is an investment in Shropshire that we are very pleased to be able to make."
The existing Fairholme will have been open for 50 years on April 1 next year. Coverage Care first announced its plans to build a new home in 2010.
Coverage Care Services operates 16 care centres in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, employing around 900 staff.
