Developer secures 72-bed care home approval

A developer has secured approval for a care home.

Charterpoint has been backed to deliver a 72-bed scheme in Markfield, near Leicester.

Officials say the venture will create 35 jobs when operational and include en-suite bathrooms, residents’ lounge and dining areas, a café/bar and activity spaces.

They add it will help ease a “severe shortage of care beds” in the Charnwood Borough area.

Giles Nursey, managing director at Charterpoint, which is based at Edwalton, on the outskirts of Nottingham, said: “We had identified the area needed a new care home development to cater for a growing shortfall in care provision. 

“Charnwood Borough Council has recognised a five-year need for 420 bed spaces, and this development will create a high quality care home for older people.

“It will boost the local job market and free up existing family homes when older residents move into the care home.”

The care home was designed by Edmund Williams Architects. 

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