Approval granted for construction of care village in Ramsbottom

The Millennium Care Group has secured planning permission to expand its Ramsbottom site to create an expansive care village.

The approval granted by Rossendale Borough Council covers the expansion of the existing facilities and the addition of extra care apartments, which will form the Porritt Care Village on their Stubbins Vale Road site.

Plans include a new 48-bed care home, Porritt Care Home, which will be built alongside the existing Lavender Hills Care Home. The new facility will provide advanced levels of dementia care. The development will feature four extra care apartments and communal facilities designed to benefit both residents and the broader community.

Lavender Hills Care Home offers respite, residential, and early-stage dementia care. The addition of Porritt Care Home and the extra care apartments will ensure continuity of care for residents as their needs evolve, allowing them to remain in a familiar and supportive environment.

Porritt Care Home will adopt the household model of care, drawing on successful practices from other Millennium Care Group homes. This modern approach, which has led to improvements in residents' life expectancy at the Group's Worthington Lake facility in Standish Care Village, emphasises person-centred, non-pharmacological care and the therapeutic use of nature.

The development also addresses a critical issue in elderly care, male isolation. Porritt Care Home will include a dedicated male-only floor, providing specialised support for 12 residents.

Stacey Astin, group regional manager at Millennium Care, said: “We’re delighted that our care village for Ramsbottom has been approved. Having previously been the Home Manager at Lavender Hills Care Home, and a local resident myself, I know how important this development will be for the Rossendale community.

The Porritt Care Village has been designed by Alessandro Caruso Architects (ACA), specialists in healthcare design. The layout makes the most of the existing home and landscape, and includes communal spaces, including bird observation huts, a bistro, and scenic walkways accessible to the local community.