New Telford care home will create 50 jobs
Up to 50 jobs could be brought to Telford at a new 66-bed care home.
LNT Care Developments hopes its plans for Lawley could also help ease the "significant shortfall" in the number of care bed spaces in the town.
It wants to build its new home for elderly people at the junction of West Centre Way and Lawley Drive – a site it says is the last undeveloped plot in Lawley Centre.
The scheme is the third to be put forward for the site after Telford & Wrekin Council previously backed the idea to build a hotel and restaurant there, and later a brain injury specialist rehabilitation unit.
Under the fresh plans, LNT says it should help ease the "significant shortfall" in the number of care bed spaces around the area.
In a statement it said: "It is anticipated 40 to 50 new jobs would be created working to a rotational shift pattern of employment.
"The development would be very much a local community facility. Residents of the home would be expected to emanate from an area no more than three miles from the site or be associated with families/relatives that reside within this same catchment."
The company said that after analysis of the local area, along with existing care facilities, it found there was a "quantitative need" for new purpose-built residential care facilities.
It comes after news earlier this year that revealed bed-blocking in Shropshire and Telford's two main hospitals was the "biggest issue" facing adult social healthcare in the county, often because of a lack of beds in the community.
