Whitchurch care home scheme will create 15 jobs
Fifteen new jobs could be created as part of plans to extend a Whitchurch care home.
A planning application has been submitted to Shropshire Council to create an extra 24 bedrooms at Cloverfields care home.
As part of the scheme, the kitchen would be extended and improvements would be made to the car parking facilities.
Dianne Campbell, spokeswoman for the applicant Safe Harbor, said: "We are hopeful of gaining planning permission for a 24-bed extension to the care home which will raise the total occupancy up to about 58 beds.
"It will incorporate a hotel standard refurbishment of the existing building. The extension will provide an opportunity for elderly and vulnerable people in the local vicinity.
"The proposed development will be extremely beneficial to the local economy for allowing future employment.
"It will encourage residents, their families and carers to access local shops which are on their doorstep as part of our promotion to become more fully integrated in our immediate community.
"The home already boasts a fantastic reputation throughout the local community, primarily because of the bespoke care offered to its residents.
"The proposed extension will allow it to extend its services and will create about 15 new positions."
Documents in support of the application add: "Current government policy on Care in the Community is asking for the private sector to provide considerably more bed spaces to meet our future needs.
"This is a full application for the erection of a two-storey extension to the existing care home in Chester Road.
"The proposals include the provision of additional bedrooms and ancillary accommodation on two floors, the inclusion of the existing outbuilding as staff and laundry, the enlargement of the existing kitchen, and improvement of the parking for cars and movement of service vehicles.
"Currently the home provides care facilities for infirm and mentally infirm residents.
"The proposals are aimed to define these uses, the new sections of the home providing secure care for EMI residents, the existing to provide care for elderly and infirm residents."
The care home currently has about 10 full-time and 22 part-time members of staff.
People can comment on the application as part of the consultation over the development via the Shropshire Council website.
The council hopes to make a decision on the application by January 6.
