Care Home Facility - This site provides an opportunity to deliver a well-designed, modern facility in an accessible location for residents, employees and visitors. The Covid pandemic has forced care homes into the spotlight.

A report by JLL about UK Care Homes has highlighted an urgent need for more care home facilities to accommodate the growing number of residents who require long-term care. 

The report identifies a need for 110,000 additional beds over the next decade, in a sector which has 5,000 fewer beds than in 2015 and 55,000 fewer beds than in 2000.

Affordable Housing - There is potential to provide First Homes and Shared Ownership as well as more traditional social 

rented homes.

Open Space - Significant public open space for use by the whole community could be provided and could include naturalistic play areas suitable for a range of ages.

Walking & Cycling - New routes within the site as well as connections onto the wider network, which in turn connect to services and facilities in Finchampstead

Public Transport & Highways Safety - Catesby are committed to providing a new bus service to and from Finchampstead to Wokingham during the morning and evening rush hour on every weekday.

Opportunity to provide further improvements for cyclists at the junction of Longwater Road and Jubilee Road. Conversion of footpath to footway/cycle with occasional widening to provide passing places for pedestrian and cyclists along Jubilee Road.

Access - Access is via Longwater Road. There is an opportunity to maintain rural lane character of Longwater Lane at the southern entrance to Finchampstead by providing new

tree and hedgerow planting.

Biodiversity - Opportunities could be provided through careful design and extensive landscape areas with new trees and native planting.  We would seek to retain the existing network of tree and hedgerow planting for the benefit of local flora and fauna and to retain the strong visual enclosure.

In addition we would maintain and enhance the Public Right of Way/green corridor, and additional tree planting could soften the existing, exposed, built-edge of Finchampstead.

Conservation - Does not fall within the conservation area and there are no listed buildings within the site.

Drainage - The site is fully located within Flood Zone 1, which is the lowest probability of flooding.

Swales and sustainable urban drainage features (SuDS) will be accommodated within the site to attenuate surface water flows to greenfield run off rates.