A new care home is set to be built in Stonehouse.
Gloucestershire County Council’s Cabinet is set to approve a £57 million investment over the next four-and-a-half years into building three new care homes in the county, including the former Elms Care Home site and Stonehouse Library site.
At a meeting on Wednesday, March 5, Cabinet will be asked to approve plans to build three new care homes to help address capacity issues in Gloucestershire.
Cllr Nick Housden – County Councillor for Stonehouse, Gloucestershire County Council, said: “I am absolutely thrilled to see this has now been built into the budgets, with a total cost of investment for the Stonehouse site at 19.5million.
“This is part of an overall £57million budget for three new care homes. Amazing news and really needed.
“This is a staggering level of investment in the town, really really needed. The new care home will create lots of local jobs and clearly improves the look of elm road removing the old horrible buildings after they have been sat there for so long. I already had the road resurfaced along there a few years ago, so this is the final piece of the puzzle.”
The GIS site in Cinderford and a third site for development, which could be located in Tewkesbury, is currently being identified.
The care homes will be developed in the right locations to meet the future, more complex needs of residents in Gloucestershire.
They will provide high-quality environments that incorporate technology to enhance residents’ care, particularly for individuals with complex needs such as dementia. It will ensure individuals remain within their local communities for their care.
Plans would see construction on the first two care homes, in Stonehouse and Cinderford, begin in May 2026, with them expected to open in early 2028.
The new care homes will allow more residents to receive care closer to where they have lived previously, or to their support networks. It runs alongside of the council’s changes to community-based services which help people to remain in the own homes. This approach provides an opportunity for people to enjoy greater independence for longer, reducing the reliance on care homes and enhancing their quality of life.
Cllr Carole Allaway-Martin, Cabinet member responsible for Adult Social Care at Gloucestershire County Council, said: “I am proud that we are committing this significant investment into services for older people in the county. The needs of our older people are becoming ever more complex and we must make sure that we have the right facilities, in the right locations for those who needs the highest level of care.”
For more information, the Cabinet report can be read on the council’s website.
