COUNCIL APPROVES PLANS FOR A £12.5M VETERANS CARE VILLAGE AT BROUGHTON HOUSE

Plans for the new village were approved by Salford City Council planning, building and regeneration committee in September.

Now permission has been granted, work on the ambitious scheme can begin early next year.

The redevelopment of the two-acre site will be partially paid for through a £3m grant from LIBOR funding, a government initiative to redistribute the proceeds of banking fines. Fundraising by Broughton House is ongoing.

The Broughton House Veterans Care Village is planned to be completed by 2020 and will include:

64 nursing home bedrooms with a dementia wing;
34 independent living apartments;
A military support hub featuring an advice centre, gym, treatment rooms, café, hair salon and meeting rooms
A memorial park with a cenotaph and remembrance walls;
Landscaped gardens featuring an all-weather bowling green and a bandstand.

Dooley Associates will manage the delivery of the scheme. The project team also includes architects Levitt Bernstein, structural engineers Curtins Consulting, service engineers Building Services Design, landscape architect Exterior Architecture, fire engineers Omega Fire and acoustician Sandy Brown.

Ty Platten, chief executive of Broughton House, said:

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“We are committed to providing a safe and secure community for military veterans and the new development will deliver a state-of-the-art care village for the north west.

Brendan Dooley, managing director of Dooley Associates, which has offices in Manchester, Birmingham and London, said:

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“The team we’ve selected to deliver this major project is first class.

“We’re pleased that Broughton House has entrusted us to ensure a high-quality outcome for the residents of the new care village and to secure the future of this important charity.”