£9.3m care development and 70 new homes in works for Yorkshire

Housing 21 has appointed national contractor Tolent to a £9.3m extra care development in Filey which could see 70 new homes created.

Built over two storeys, the development will include a mix of one and two bedroom apartments with community facilities to support residents including a lounge, salon, café and garden space.

This is the fourth extra care scheme that Tolent has built for Housing 21; other schemes have included Keelboat Lodge and Springtide Cove in Sunderland.

Having worked in collaboration with Housing 21 through a full development service from land acquisition to handling the legal process, Tolent will be starting on site in January 2020.

Commercial director for Tolent, Paul Walker said: “Our overarching aim is to support clients in achieving their goals and it’s fantastic to know that we’ve done that once again with Housing 21 on this latest development.

“From retirement villages, dementia specific care homes to supported living bungalows, we’ve delivered over £100m of work in this sector in the past few years alone and it’s an area of our business that continues to grow.”

The development will be built on land at Filey Fields Farm on Scarborough Road and is due for completion in spring 2021.

Housing 21 is a not-for-profit provider of retirement housing and extra care for older people. The organisation currently has one of the largest build programmes for older people’s housing in England.

Tolent is currently on site in Durham on the £84.5m Milburngate development and Hadrian’s Tower, soon to be Newcastle’s tallest tower.