The Care Village has been constructed on a 2.3 hectare siteand consists of 3 main buildings: NorseCare’s Mayflower

Court: an 80-bed specialist dementia care home and The Meadows, Saffron Housing Trust’s 92 apartment housing with care scheme. The village is part of the wider Three Score development site, with Norwich City Council planning to use the rest of the 32-hectare site to create 1,000 homes, community facilities and open space.

 

In planning the Care Village, NorseCare successfully bid for £4.2m of funding from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and Department of Health in July 2014. Saffron Housing are landlords of the site and have invested £8.5m in the scheme. The land at Three Score in Bowthorpe was donated free of charge by Norwich City Council. Plans for the Care Village were designed by Barron and Smith Architects (renamed Hamson Barron Smith on 3 May 2016), part of NPS Group, with R G Carter appointed to turn these designs into a reality.

 

This project is the latest in the Transformation programme, set up between the Norse Group and Norfolk County Council when NorseCare was formed in 2011. The programme focuses on creating and replacing ageing care homes or enhancing existing environments within care homes owned by NorseCare. Current and future residents benefit from more modern and spacious environments, enabling NorseCare to provide better, more appropriate care.

 

The programme enables the Norse Group to work together, bringing multi-disciplinary services together including property consultancy, architectural design, through to catering and facilities management services. In turn this continues to return millions of pounds in profits to Norfolk County Council, supporting thousands of jobs and underpinning the local economy.