Plans have been submitted to create 14 additional bedrooms at at a Penrith residential care home along with communal areas.
The plans submitted to Westmorland and Furness Council have opened for planning consultation, to build a single storey extension to the front of Croft Avenue Residential Care Home to provide an additional 14 bedrooms with associated communal accommodation, and the creation of new parking and retaining wall.
The additional bedrooms have been designed to increase the capacity from 30 to 44 residents with the communal living and dining spaces, and other ancillary areas such as a hairdresser, shop, and sluice room with the design seeking to meet and exceed the standards outlined in the Care Inspectorate's "Care Home for Adults.
The extension designs have also been created to blend with the existing 19th century building that forms Croft Avenue residential care home and also with neighbouring properties.
A prominent feature of the design for the new extension designed by Zub-Architecture is the green roof, which allows the extension to blend into the surrounding landscape and reduce the visual impact of the building when viewed from higher neighbouring properties. The green roof design will also enhance the site's environmental performance by improving insulation and stormwater management.
Innovative green roof extension design by Zub-Architecture
Many of the neighbouring streets and properties around Croft Avenue are covered by the Penrith conservation area, placing a number of restrictions on developments and changes to properties.
Croft Avenue and the care home are excluded from the conservation area that could have prevented the innovative plans and design but the application like all plans in Penrith will now be subject to new planning policies created by Penrith Town Council introduced in the Penrith Neighbourhood Plan that was last week formally adopted by Westmorland and Furness Council as part of the planning policy for Penrith.
Plans can be viewed on the council planning portal click to View plans here
A public planning consultation is open until the 12th of February 2025.
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