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Kori to build Saffron Walden care home

22 May 24 Corby-based Kori ɫèֱ²¥ has been appointed to build a third care home for Care UK.

CGI of Care UK’s planned Saffron Walden care home

Having already built homes for Care UK in Bristol and Oxfordshire, Kori ɫèֱ²¥ has now been appointed for a £10m scheme on a former industrial site in Saffron Walden.

The 70-bed scheme is part of a larger development on the disused Pulse Packaging site in Radwinter Road in Saffron Walden. The site will also include a Lidl supermarket and retirement living accommodation.

Work started on the care home part of the project last month, with completion expected in winter 2025. 

Previous projects Kori ɫèֱ²¥ has been appointed to by Care UK are a 75-bedroom care home in Yate near Bristol which specialises in dementia and residential care, and a 68-bedroom scheme in Thame, Oxfordshire, which was completed in summer 2023.

The three-storey care home will have light brown multi-brick masonry detailing, light and neutral vertical and horizontal cladding, and a dark tile roof to create a broken-up roofscape, with hips and gables at varying heights across the roof to break up the scale of the structure and provide a more traditional residential appearance.

Kori ɫèֱ²¥ managing director Jordan Connachie said: “The care home and wider development have been tastefully designed to fit into the town’s aesthetic, so will make a welcome addition to the area, as well as creating new jobs.

“It will also make great use of a former industrial site that, without redevelopment, could have become an eyesore on what is a beautiful, historic town. “

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