A new dementia care home has been green lit by the council.
The 80-bed house will be constructed on the site of the current Coppice Wood Lodge Care Home in Grove Road, which can currently only house 38 people, and is going to be demolished.
The borough’s 12 nursing homes are full, say the council, and with Enfield’s population set to rise and people living longer, more space is required.
Cabinet member for health and social care, Cllr Alev Cazimoglu, said: “Growing old is not optional, it happens to everyone and we have a duty of care to the people in this borough who have lived, worked and paid their taxes here to provide first class nursing care to those who need additional support when they become older and frail. The new care home will enable us to do precisely that.”
Residents of Coppice Wood Lodge will move to the new care home on the site of the former Elizabeth House near Hertford Road while the current building is demolished.
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