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New nursing home could create 80 jobs in Chichester
January 12, 2012
EIGHTY new jobs could be created with the building of a new nursing home in Chichester.
Colten Care, one of the South Coast’s biggest care home providers, has reached agreement with ZeroC to develop land at Roussillon Barracks.
A formal planning application for the one-acre site, on the corner of Broyle Road and Wellington Road, is expected to be submitted within the next few months.
If approved work on building the state-of-the-art luxury home, which will have around 75 bedrooms, could begin by early 2013. The site was originally earmarked for either a care home or student accommodation.
Ian Hudson, Managing Director, said: “This is a very exciting joint venture between ZeroC and Colten Care which will lead to the establishment of our first nursing home in West Sussex.
“We are very keen to share our plans with local residents and enter into a genuine consultation process. To this extent we will be holding an exhibition shortly to showcase our proposal.”
Founded in 1989, family owned Colten Care is based in Lymington, Hampshire, and currently operates 18 quality care and dementia homes in Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.
The company offers a range of services spanning residential care to nursing care and dementia and employs 1,300 people with an annual turnover of £35 million.
Work is currently underway on its 19th home, a 56-bed specialist dementia care home in Winchester costing £7 million. St Catherine’s View will open this spring creating 80 new jobs.
In November Colten Care announced plans to build its largest care home to date in Lymington at a cost of £8.5 million. It will be the 20th to be opened by the award-winning firm.
ZeroC, in partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency, started work on creating a 252-home eco-development at Roussillon Barracks, the former home of the Redcaps, last August.
The site is due to be completed by 2017 with the first of eight phases, including 63 two, three, and four bedroom homes, expected to be finished from March.
