Care home plan submitted to replace demolished facility
LONDON: Plans have been submitted for a new care home on the footprint of a previous one.
Fosse House, on the junction of Hykeham Road and Newark Road in Bracebridge, was closed in 2020 after it was deemed “no longer fit for purpose”.
The building was knocked down two years later, and the site has stood empty ever since.
The Orders of St John Care Trust, a not-for-profit charitable trust, has now submitted designs for a new 80-bed care home on the site.
It would care for twice as many people as the previous care home and offer specialist dementia care, according to planning documents.
They say it will help to meet a national shortage of care facilities, which is expected to worsen over the coming years.
“The proposed care home will deliver much-needed residential and nursing care accommodation (including specialist dementia care) for the people of Bracebridge and Lincoln,” the documents say.
They go on to say that the proposed care home “offers the ideal location for specialised facilities that are equipped to deliver acute levels of care where it is needed.
“The proposed care home will allow individual residents to receive varying degrees of support and nursing care.”
The trust, which operates 75 care homes around the country, would both own and operate the new facility.
Fosse House was nearly fully occupied when it closed, but was deemed to have reached the end of its serviceable life.
The applicant estimates that the new facility will create the equivalent of 80 full-time jobs.