Huge new care home could create 50 jobs

The building will have 60 rooms and employ 53 employees.

Planning chiefs are set to approve a care home in Widnes that could create more than 50 jobs. Halton Council’s development management committee meets on Monday to propose support for Care Developments North West’s scheme to build a home on the former Greenoaks Farm industrial estate, in Warrington Road, Halton View.

The private three-storey facility will specialize in “end of life and dementia care” and will be built on a triangular site of brownfield bush surrounded on all three sides by residential buildings on Gregson Road to the north, Wynyard Way to the west and properties adjacent to the site on Warrington Road. If approved, it would have 60 rooms and 53 staff working three shifts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The site will also have 24 car parking spaces and 10 bicycle spaces. The Isle of Man firm behind the plans originally received planning permission to build a specialist unit for people with autism on the same site back in 2021, but some residents and councilors raised concerns about parking at the time.

The committee’s report said: “The application site provides an opportunity for regeneration as it is currently a vacant, derelict, demolished urban site detracting from the appearance of the surrounding area.”

This is an environmentally friendly brownfield site surrounded by residential development. The proposal is considered acceptable and the application is recommended for approval, subject to the conditions being met.