Plans for new care home in Kingswinford revived - with potential for 75 new jobs
Plans to demolish former offices in Kingswinford and build a new care home have been revived.
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Torsion Care has revealed plans to build a 73-bed care home on the site of Hampshire House in High Street, Kingswinford.
The long-empty offices on the overgrown site would be demolished to make way for the new care home – which also includes a cafe and salon.
The care home would create 75 new jobs, according to the application.
Previous plans for the site have included new homes and a care home which resulted in objections from neighbours over the potential loss of privacy and overlooking as well as parking problems due to the lack of included spaces.
A total of 23 parking spaces have been included in the most recent application by Torsion Care.
A statement included with the application by the Leeds-based care home provider said: “The proposed development of the existing site represents an ideal opportunity to meet the growing care needs of those living in the Kingswinford area.
“Our proposed development provides a sustainable building design to meet the operational needs of a modern care facility, it will help bridge the under-supply of a significant shortfall of fit-for future beds, and it can provide 75 jobs to the local community.”
Hampshire House has been the subject of several planning applications for homes and a smaller care home in recent years but the building still remains in place with no work carried out.
Churchill Retirement Living scrapped plans in 2023 to build 47 flats and three cottages for the over 60s on the site more than six months after putting the application forward.
Concerns had been raised by planners at Dudley Council about the size of the building and the lack of car parking spaces.
A separate application to build 31 homes on the land in Kingswinford was approved by Dudley Council in 2022 but never built.
Churchill Retirement Living had its plan to build a care home and new play area on the site of the former youth centre on the opposite side of Kingswinford High Street rejected by Dudley Council at the start of the year. The youth centre, which closed in 2014, would also have been demolished.
