The owners of the Box Wharf site, Blueview Properties Ltd, were promoting a healthcare redevelopment to be owned and managed by the Maria Mallaband Care Group.
A carefully considered proposal involved the demolition of the existing industrial buildings and the erection of a 55-bed nursing home and 18 extra care apartments. The apartments were for occupation by single people or couples with a minimum age of 55 with a need for care. They had full disabled access with lifts and were designed to lifetime home standards.
The proposals included communal landscaped gardens and car parking was concealed beneath the proposed new buildings. It was designed to work with site topography and include a scheme of structural landscaping with quality and natural external materials proposed throughout.
The development provides the following community benefits:
- Replacement of existing unsightly industrial buildings with new more appropriately scaled and detailed residential accommodation
- Redundant industrial ‘island’ site which attracted vandalism was replaced with a well-managed site integrated with the community
- Car parking hidden under buildings
- Increased and enhanced soft landscaping
- Creation of up to 50 new jobs
- Reduction of traffic (no HGVs)
