The Home
Design
The home has been designed to support the delivery of the highest standard of dementia care. The layout proposed is commensurate with a home that is of the highest quality. This principle of high-quality care has been shared with internal and external expert advisors who have provided their input to the design. These advisors include senior clinical dementia experts and highly experienced senior advisors within the sector. The proposals seek to maximise the number, size, and quality of specialist care beds, as well as increasing the choice of communal spaces for residents and their families to enjoy.
The care and wellbeing of the residents is key, and the design of the proposed building reflects best practice and a high-quality care model. The care sector often has a reliance on anti-psychotic medication within homes. The design of this home aims to reduce the reliance on medications of this kind by 75%. This is because the care model proposed for Mission Care’s Love Walk care home would significantly improve quality of life and care for the residents of the home.
Should planning permission be granted, the home on Love Walk would deliver the following benefits:
- Retaining a care use on the site, which is long and well-established, and responds to local and national need for residential nursing care.
- Replacing the existing buildings, which are no longer fit-for-purpose, with a modern, sustainable new care home of high quality and which reflects best practise and the latest thinking in care provision, providing residents with best living outcomes.
- The design is of high quality which is sympathetic to its surroundings and in keeping with Camberwell, with a thoughtful and attractive design, improving on the current buildings on site.
- The proposed care home will be a much more sustainable and energy efficient building including the use of Air Source Heat Pumps and solar panels and targeting BREEAM “Excellent”.
- The proposals incorporate a new 1.8-metre-wide footway to the north of Love Walk to help improve access at this point.
- The proposal would result in several temporary and permanent employment opportunities, both during the construction and when the care home is operational.
- The proposal would help contribute to improved local economic prosperity. The families of residents and care home staff will contribute to Camberwell’s economy, bringing additional expenditure to local shops and amenities.
- The proposal will result in Biodiversity Net Gain with the installation of bat boxes and bird boxes where appropriate.
- The development would revitalise a site which has currently been out-of-use for some time, attracting squatters and anti-social behaviour, creating a more positive frontage onto Love Walk.
