Danforth Care has opened Meadow Croft in Garstang, Lancashire, which offers 24-hour residential, respite, and dementia care for up to 66 residents.

The home, built by LNT Care Developments, features underfloor heating, a hair salon, café, library, sweet shop, cinema and landscaped gardens. Each room has an en suite fully equipped wet room, flat screen TV and mini fridge. Meals are restaurant quality and activities are personally scheduled.

The grand opening took place 1 March with guests offered a tour of the home and refreshments.

Home manager Diane Langford says: “It was a pleasure showing off this fabulous new care home, and we can’t wait to serve the wonderful community here in the village. Like all Danforth’s homes, Meadow Croft is A rated for energy and will operate without gas, going pure electric to be as ecofriendly as possible. An underground energy system running miles below the care home will heat the home’s hot water, provide underfloor heating and air cooling for the residents as an added bonus. With 80% of the available roof space lined with solar panels, the home will be making its own electricity, and selling what it doesn’t need back to the grid.”

“We are incredibly proud of all the work done to ensure this care home will be a happy, ecofriendly place to live for decades to come. We care deeply not just about our residents and staff, but about our planet as well.”

Danforth Care Group has opened 13 care homes in the past 16 months, providing a home for 858 vulnerable adults and creating 780 jobs. The next home to be opened will be Harbour Manor care home in Suffolk.