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Developer hails team behind £17m health village

A former Middlesbrough dentist has emerged as the developer behind a multi-million pound health and residential care facility being built in his old home town.

Philip Lunnon, of Ettrick Health Limited, watched work start on the £17m Low Grange Health and Residential Care Village, in the Greater Eston area of Middlesbrough, and hailed the public-private sector partnership that is helping to make the pioneering development a reality after more than five years of planning.

“This is the epitome of the public and private sector working in harmony to create a first-class community facility,” said Mr Lunnon, who left Teesside to go into full-time healthcare property development five-and-a-half years ago.

“Its legacy will be a one-stop integrated health and social care complex that will enrich the lives of the people of Eston and the wider area for generations to come.”

The development, a partnership between Ettrick Health, Redcar and Cleveland Primary Care Trust and Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, is being built next to the library in Normanby Road, on playing fields previously used by St Peter’s RC Maths and Computing College.

The first phase – the health village – will provide an expanded range of medical and healthcare services, including four GP practices, a pharmacy, opticians and NHS dental surgery, and is expected to open in April 2010. A new library and information centre is also being built.

The second phase – the residential care element – will provide residential care, nursing care and specialist care for the elderly and young people with disabilities. Work on this will start once the health village is complete and is due to open in March 2011.

When fully completed, there will be more than 70,000sq ft of healthcare, residential and public service facilities.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .