Benefits
Will traffic get worse in Moor Lane?
No, it may even improve. The north end of Moor Lane does suffer with some congestion due mainly to the popularity of Moor Lane Church and its Creche facility. A new, much larger Church car park forms part of the development plan, which will help to remove this parking problem from the roadside, enabling the local buses to pass freely.
English Care Villages also offer their residents a pool car, minibus and driver service to reduce on-site car ownership. The traffic generated by the development will have no significant impact in terms of either the capacity or safety of the highway.
Benefits to the housing chain
By providing a better, more practical alternative to living in a large family home, residents moving into a CCRC will release large family homes back into the community.
This will permit families in the community to trade up, instead of having to extend their existing home and in effect release homes at the middle and the bottom of the housing market back into the community.
Community benefits and local jobs
As the Care Community will be dedicated for older people, it means that issues of anti-social behaviour, vandalism and noise simply don’t exist – making it the ideal neighbour.
Events hosted at the Care Community could be enjoyed by retired members of the wider community and a new Care Community will also bring plenty of employment opportunities; not just nursing care and administrative staff, but also chefs, table waiting staff, gardeners, hairdressers, event organisers and office staff.