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LarkPoint a joint venture between Larkfleet Group and Nottingham based CharterPoint Developments, has started work on an extra and close care housing scheme in Eye for Axiom Housing Association.
The scheme includes a 52 unit extra care facility and 12 close care bungalows with associated parking and landscaping on land off Thorney Road in Eye.
The development has been made possible following an intensive period of collaboration between LarkPoint and Axiom with Peterborough City Council, Peterborough Primary Care Trust and the Homes and Communities Agency to get the project off the ground. The total investment by Axiom in the scheme is almost £10 million with £3 million coming from a grant from the Homes and Communities Agency.
The main building on the development will offer high quality residential accommodation as well as a wide range of amenity and communal facilities. It is intended that this extra care accommodation will be a community hub, offering facilities not only to residents of the main building but also to the close care bungalows and to the wider community in Eye.
Work is scheduled to be completed in March 2011.
LarkPoint provides high quality, bespoke primary care, elderly care and retirement living premises and often works in partnership with registered housing providers such as Axiom Housing Association.
Giles Nursey, a director of LarkPoint, commented: "This new development is a fantastic opportunity for both LarkPoint and Axiom Housing Association to work together to provide quality extra and close care housing for the elderly. We look forward to progressing the construction phase."
Alan Lewin, CEO of Axiom Housing Association, said: "There is an increasing need for high quality independent accommodation for older people. This new development will allow us to meet part of that need in Eye backed by our established and dedicated first class support service."
Extra care housing offers varying levels of care and support available on site. People who live in extra care housing have their own self contained homes resulting in extra care housing being a popular choice as an alternative to a care home.
Close care schemes are a relatively new concept and consist of independent flats or bungalows that can be rented or purchased which are built on the same site as an extra care facility or a care home.