New Stafford care home could create 70 jobs

An application for the three-storey care home in Silkmore Lane has been submitted by Muller Senior Living Limited and Cinnamon Care Collection Ltd which could create 70 jobs.

A previous application for a 76-bed care home was granted by Stafford Borough Council in May 2016.

In the current plans it says: "The new scheme is to be an improvement of that previously submitted as the initial designs do not match Cinnamon’s operational requirements.

"The proposed scheme aiming to improve car parking layout along with the entrance road and increasing separation distances and open space.

"Increasing the availability of this type of accommodation will lead to a positive effect on the local housing provision, as the care home fills houses will be released back into the local community in differing sizes to either as larger family houses or smaller starter homes."

Associated highways infrastructure, parking and landscaping will be provided as part of the plans, if approved.

The report adds: "The scale of the building has been carefully considered to reflect its immediate context in terms of scale and massing.

"The proposed building is a maximum of three storeys high, utilising a typical floor height of 3.15m, roof heights are at a similar level to that of neighbouring buildings whereby sitting comfortably in context.

"As the care home is, by nature, significantly larger than residential properties, careful thought has been given to reduce the visual scale and mass to respond positively to the existing context but also to be more homelike and intimate in scale."

Stafford Borough Council will consider the plans at a later date.