Plans for new care home will create 85 jobs
PLANS to bulldoze a Cheadle pub to make way for a new care home will create 85 jobs for the area.
Applicant Bradley Edge, in partnership with New Care, plans to demolish the Queens Arms on Stockport Road and replace it with a 68-bed ‘high-quality’ facility.
The blueprints, to be considered by Stockport council, include communal living rooms, verandas, assisted bathrooms dining areas.
There is also a commercial kitchen on each of the two floors.
Visitors will enter the site from Stockport Road – and have access to 27 car parking spaces including seven for disabled use.
A planning document reads that: “The development will be sympathetic to the locality and enhance the properties along Stockport Road and the junction with Councillor Lane.
“The main access is via Stockport Road with accessible parking for visitors and staff.
“From experience, the majority of residents no longer drive and the amount of parking required limited.”
The report continues: “The proposal is to provide 68 single-occupancy bedrooms.
“To manage the facility it will require 49 full-time and 36 part-time staff.”
Meanwhile, Donna Kay, on behalf of New Care, says that Cheadle has one of the most ‘acute shortfalls’ of ‘fit for purpose’ care facilities in the region.
In a letter to Stockport council’s planning team, is therefore Ms Kay states: “There is a significant shortfall of 958 quality beds in the area.
“By quality beds, the term refers to a room with a private en-suite.
“In order to promote basic forms of dignity, it is now widely accepted that the elderly should no longer have to rely on sharing a toilet.
“A shortfall of nearly 1,000 quality beds within a three-mile radius is one of the largest shortfalls that the group has witnessed in recent years, meaning the demand for a new facility in Cheadle is unprecedented.”
The letter continues: “Notwithstanding the quality bed shortfall, our data also focuses on more general bed shortages, which defined Cheadle as being deficient by 166 beds.”