A care home in Saltaire will close in November as part of plans to create four ‘Extra Care’ facilities in the district which would allow elderly people to live independently for longer, it has been revealed.

Alternative accommodation is being sought for residents at Neville Grange care home, which will shut its doors to make way for an Extra Care scheme on its current site and that of nearby Fearncliffe Court under Bradford Council's new Great Places to Grow Old strategy.

The Council’s executive approved plans to redevelop Neville Grange in January, with the home closing for construction to take place, and no prospect of long-stay residents returning to the new facilities, which would provide extra-care flats and intermediate care only.

The plan is a joint project with health and housing chiefs aimed at providing more homes for pensioners ahead of a projected growth in the elderly population of the district, with Extra Care facilities at Saltaire, Airedale, Thackley and Goitside.

Extra Care is considered a step down from residential care, as the facilities provide one or two-bed units with 24-hour homes support and care.

Dean Roberts, the Council’s service manager for residential and day care, said work on the Saltaire scheme would start next January and the home would close in November.

“We are working with Neville Grange’s service users to find alternative accommodation or support and consulting everyone directly affected,” he said.

“We will then team up with our housing colleagues to carry out a consultation on the planned development of the Neville Grange and Ferncliffe site. There are no plans to close any of the other homes at this stage.”

The Saltaire and Thackley schemes are the most advanced and, in January, the Council’s executive agreed to transfer the required land at Ellar Carr Road in Thackley to Housing 21, which provides care, health and housing for older people, and to sell off the former Thackley Grange care home site to help fund the extra-care housing scheme at Ellar Carr Road.

Thackley Grange was one of three Council care homes closed in 2011.

People can find out more about plans to build the Extra Care facility at Saltaire during a consultation event at Neville Grange Resource Centre on Monday, July 8.

There will be information sessions from the Great Places to Grow Old team at 5.30pm and 6.30pm.