Community benefits

We want to create a place the whole community can use and enjoy. Of course, a key benefit we provide is care for older members of the local community. We also strengthen the local housing market by freeing up family homes and reduce the pressure on the NHS and wider care system.

An extra care development also benefits the local community in ways that other types of development wouldn’t. For example, wherever possible the site and its facilities will be accessible and available to the local community.

Why is integration so important?

We want to create an integrated community to help continue to give purpose and meaning to our residents in their later years.

Successful extra care communities are truly integrated with the communities they sit within. Intergenerational integration reduces isolation which has proven health and wellbeing benefits.

Local community benefits will include

Beautiful publicly accessible open and green spaces, carefully landscaped for people and nature

Publicly accessible café/bistro and activity space

New local jobs on and offsite and investment in the local area supporting Bristol’s pandemic recovery

Quality buildings that take inspiration from what’s already on the site and the local area

A welcoming place that encourages intergenerational integration, benefitting the local community and the older people who will call this new community home

Exploring working with the local education authority to provide Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) programmes