Proposed care home could bring dozens of well-paid jobs

1,000 more care beds needed in the city

A new care home could be built as part the Saltram Meadows development at Plymstock.

LNT Care Developments is seeking pre-application advice from Plymouth City Council before submitting a formal planning proposal for a home that could care for 66 residents.

The home will provide general residential care as well as specialist residential dementia care, with between 50 and 60 new jobs offering “above average wages for care workers”, planning documents say.

It also promises a meeting space for community groups in the building off Encombe Street which is intended to form part of the main square and planned ‘local centre’ and be close to the new Morley Meadow Primary School.

Over the past two decades, LNT has built 223 care homes across the country, but this would be its first in Plymouth.

Saltram Meadows is the former Plymstock Quarry, close to the Saltram National Trust estate, which was granted outline planning consent in 2011 for 1,684 homes, employment uses, retail and community facilities.

Development has taken place over several phases.

LNT wants to built on a plot which has an existing permission for a four-storey block of 36 flats and micro business units at ground level.

It says it can deliver the care home ready for occupation by the end of 2026.

The three storey L-shaped flat roofed building would also house a café, hairdressers, shop, library, garden room and cinema room.

A parking courtyard is proposed to the rear of the care home with 27 spaces.

LNT commissioned an independent assessment which said that more than 1,000 care beds were needed locally and more than 500 dementia beds with this need likely to grow.