PLANS to extend a Bridgnorth residential home for elderly people could bring 30 to 40 new jobs to the town.
Coverage Care Ltd, which currently leases Innage Grange from Shropshire Council, wants to build a nursing wing.
“We have enjoyed operating Innage Grange for 11 to 12 years and have put in an offer to the council for its purchase,” said Coverage Care chief executive David Coull.
“We are optimistic that that there will be an exchange of contracts in the not too distant future. We want to explore the possibility of extending Innage Grange by opening a nursing wing so that any frail people would not have to move. This would provide 30 extra beds and the extension would be two-storey and built on to Innage Grange,” he explained.
Mr Coull said that the planning application to the district council had the full support of Bridgnorth Old Peoples’ Welfare Committee who provide bathing facilities for elderly and frail local people at the nearby Innage Bungalow.
Innage Grange currently has 50 mainly elderly residents, some of whom have dementia.
The residents all have separate en suite rooms in the building, which was opened by the Duchess of York in 1989.
Coverage Care runs 12 residential homes in Shropshire and is currently building facilities at Whitchurch and at Lightmoor, Telford.