We are investing £50 million in a regeneration programme – called Project Care - designed to improve the quality of accommodation for older people and people with learning disabilities across Buckinghamshire.
Under Project Care we will build eight new care homes, as well as accommodation in flats and shared houses for people with learning disabilities and nearly 200 new affordable homes.
We are working in partnership with Buckinghamshire County Council and The Fremantle Trust, under the Project Care agreement.
We have completed five new residential care homes and two are under construction. The new care homes have all been designed in a series of wings to provide residents with a cosy environment rather then the feeling of living in a large care home.
Each wing is totally self contained with its own communal lounge and dining room and assisted bathing facilities. From every wing there is level access to outside space, either to a garden or patio from the ground floor or to balconies from the first floor.
All residents will have ensuite rooms. Each of the new care homes has an extensive kitchen, a hairdressing salon, treatment room, shop, smoking room for residents, offices and staff facilities.
Residential care homes
Lewin House, Aylesbury
Lewin House was the first care home built under Project Care. The two storey building can accommodate 70 older people with a range of needs, including nursing care and has a separate unit for eight people with learning disabilities.
Icknield Court, Princes Risborough
90 bed residential care home.
Downley Heights, Downley, High Wycombe
- 90 bed nursing home;
- Separate unit for 15 people with learning disabilities.
Carey Lodge, Wing
75 bed residential care home.
Sir Aubrey Ward House, Marlow
60 bed residential care home.- Sir Aubrey Ward House is the first purpose built residential care home built in Marlow for more than forty years.