To design and develop a Residential Care Home for Young Physically Disabled People.

OUR ROLE

Our client had already acquired the land on which there was already a domestic dwelling. Although the house was set in substantial grounds; approximately a third of an acre, recent planning restrictions meant that a conventional nursing home would not have been successfully approved by the Local Planning Authority.

Our brief was to develop Birmingham’s first purpose built home strictly for the use of younger physically disabled people.

After lengthy consultations and various schemes were proposed, planning permission was finally granted for the development of an 18 bed residential care home.

Construction work began almost immediately, and what was previously a single dwelling house was extended with new wings added to become a very generous and quite modern home specialising in care for young physically disabled people.

The project was managed by our company, once again overseeing all aspects of design, detail, specification and documents. Traditional construction methods were applied. Subsidence to one area of the existing property meant that this had to be piled. The use of mini piles was undertaken co-ordinated through our company in conjunction with the consulting engineers.

The success of the development has helped Ashmill Residential Care Homes to become a successful service provider offering specialist care of this nature in Birmingham.