Public invited to meeting about newly proposed Scarborough older people’s housing and care facility
Scarborough residents are invited to attend a presentation and learn more about plans to build an innovative new care facility for older people in the town. The meeting, to be held at Scarborough Town Hall on Thursday 12 February at 6.30pm, has been organised by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) who are looking to develop and manage the complex.
JRHT have submitted a planning application to Scarborough Borough Council for approval to build the facility at Woodlands Drive. The scheme consists of 40 self-contained flats and 14 “cottages”, for sale or rent, with staff on-site to offer care when needed. Older people living outside the complex will be able to share the communal facilities, likely to include a shop, dining room, hairdressers and gym.
Next week’s meeting will include presentations by the JRHT, the architects, McNeil Beechey and O’Neill, and representatives from North Yorkshire Social Services and the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Primary Care Trust.
If it goes ahead the care facility will be named Plaxton Court after the late F W (Eric) Plaxton, former Chairman of the Scarborough based Plaxton Group, who left money to be used for the benefit of the inhabitants of Scarborough. The F W Plaxton Charitable Trust will be a major funder of the scheme.
