PLANS for a new dementia care home in Toutley were approved earlier this month, but Norreys ward councillor Phil Cunnington wanted to know if the new administration supported it.
The executive member for health and wellbeing, Cllr David Hare, said that the partnership felt that the home needed to built as soon as possible as it was a key priority and would do all it could to make that happen.
In response, Cllr Cunnington said that was very good to hear, and wanted to know more about plans for the existing council-run facility, Suffolk Lodge.
Cllr Hare pointed out that moving people from one care home to another would be a carefully managed process.
“People being moved from one care home to another can shorten their lives,” he said. “We will be understanding of this, and not move them all in one day, but spread over several months.”
