Business park to build care home and apartments

Land on a Leicestershire business park can be used for a new 70-bed dementia care home and 22 extra care apartments.

Part of Melton Mowbray’s Pera Business Park will be redeveloped into a four-storey care home and separate apartment block, said applicant Staveley Gardens Development Company Ltd in documents first submitted in 2021.

Melton Borough Council on Monday approved an amended plan and the change of use, with seven fewer beds in the care home and eight fewer apartments than first requested.

The care home on the eastern part of the site off Nottingham Road will step up in tiers, with terrace gardens on the roof of each level.

A new junction will be created inside the Pera site, with a lime tree being removed to make way for the access to a central parking area set in a park.

The application said the new facility will be “state-of-the-art” and “forward-thinking”.

The homes will be designed to allow residents easy access to outdoor spaces through open plan design and south-facing terraces at all levels.

Documents said: “Traditional care home design only gives residents on the ground floor free-flow access, and the majority of other residents have to manage with just a view and do not benefit from the enrichment of being outside.”

The scheme is part of Pera’s “masterplan” to “release value” in “under-utilised” parts of the business park.

Planning documents suggest the care home will create up to 100 jobs as well as addressing the Melton area’s ageing population.

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