AN extra 17 residential and dementia care places will be built at a new state-of-the-art home for the elderly.
Housing Solutions Group, a not for profit housing association, has won planning permission to construct the building, which will replace Sir Aubrey Ward home in Prospect Road, Marlow.
The new home will have 60 places and work is expected to begin in summer 2009.
It is part of a redevelopment project of Buckinghamshire care homes run in connection with charity Fremantle, who provide the service, and Buckinghamshire County Council.
Project Care aims to upgrade and modernise all current residential care services for the elderly and people with learning disabilities in Buckinghamshire over the next four years.
Current residents at Sir Aubrey Ward will move to the third of the project’s new homes, The Heights, to be opened at Downley Heights, High Wycombe, next spring.
Carole Sawyers, Fremantle Chief Executive, said: “ Sir Aubrey Ward House has served us well but it has now seen better days, it does not meet Government standards introduced in 2002, or people’s higher expectations for spacious, en-suite personal accommodation and better communal facilities.”
Sixteen individual apartments for people with learning disabilities opened in June 2008 in High Wycombe along with a home for the elderly in Icknield Court, Princes Risborough.
It provides 90 places - half residential and half dementia care.
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