A NEW nursing home with a ‘memory lane’ designed for people living with dementia could open its doors in Clayton.

Plans for the 65-bed home have been submitted by the family company which run the The Glen Nursing Home in Baildon and the Five Rise Nursing Home in Bingley.

The Five Rise home received a great deal of attention when its yesteryear street was unveiled (pictured).

Featuring old-fashioned lamp-posts, bus stops, a telephone box and a row of shops, including a traditional barbers, a post office and green grocer's, the aim was to create a living space to spark memories and help with reminiscence therapy. It's proposed the Clayton home be built on land off The Avenue, on a previously undeveloped site next to Clayton Cricket Club.

Documents submitted with the application say: "The brief for the development is to provide a purpose-built nursing home which provides a safe and stimulating environment for the residents. The scheme is based upon the two previous homes built in Baildon and Bingley, which provide a ‘blue print’ for how we need the home to work."

It adds: "The development must include external facilities including a ‘memory lane’ feature to stimulate old memories, a sensory garden including raised beds to enable residents to touch and smell plants."

The application says the scheme will provide a "high-quality" nursing home to meet the needs of increasing numbers of elderly people, as well as people with dementia.

It says the two similar schemes in Baildon and Bingley have been "extremely successful".

As well as the feature 'memory lane', the home will also include dayrooms, a cinema room and a hairdressers.

"The provision of this scheme increases the quality provision of care facilities within the Bradford area, and will provide a home which provides both the physical environment as well as care provision suitable for the 21st Century," says the application.

"The scheme will also provide employment for local people and will enhance an area of land which has lain unused and undeveloped for many years.

"The scheme will have less impact on the local road network than the previously approved housing scheme, as there will be less cars and any staff and visitors using the site will tend to spread the car journeys over the course of the day, rather than leaving the site at 8am and returning at 6pm as is likely to be the case with a housing development."