Care home expands at bigger new base
A care home that has served a community for 20 years has moved into bigger and better premises.
A care home that has served a community for 20 years has moved into bigger and better premises.
Glenyon Rest Home, formerly in Chester Road, Brownhills, has relaunched as Angel Court Care Home, in Manor Road, Stonnall.
Owner Bina Parmar said she had mixed feelings about moving after 20 "very good" years in the Chester Road home. The move has allowed staff to increase the number of patients on the home's books to 24 from 13. Mrs Parmar said: "It's a newer, refurbished place with better facilities."
The move had also enabled staff to offer a wider range of care to their patients than before, she said.
The home can now take people suffering from dementia or pensioners requiring residential care.
All residents are now settling in well at their new home, Mrs Parmar added.
"Everyone is very pleased to be here," she said.
A number of new care homes are now in the pipeline to be built in Walsall this year, including one in Brownhills.
Knaves Court is set to be built in the town's Short Street.
There are also homes earmarked for Sandbeds Road, Short Heath, Willenhall and Brockhurst Crescent, near Walsall town centre.
A dementia unit will also be created at the site of the former Goscote Hospital in Goscote Lane, Walsall.
Retreat Care Homes Ltd is hoping to convert the High Street building, which is about 100 years old, into a 10-bedroom independent care home.
It would be specialising in the short and longer-term rehabilitation of adults between 18 and 65 with learning disabilities, mental health disorders and physical disabilities.
Last year, a 106 bedroom home, Alrewych Centre, opened in Northgate, Ald-ridge.
Plans have also been submitted to Walsall Council to turn a notorious former pub and underground club into a care home for the disabled in Walsall town centre.
The scheme would create more than 35 jobs and boost the town's economy and appearance by bringing the derelict Market Tavern pub back to life.
The High Street pub became synonymous with crime and was the scene of several violent brawls.
