Hartford Care has acquired two newly built residential care homes in Alton and Southampton in Hampshire.

The home in Alton will be the second of Hartford’s care homes in the town and will offer residential, dementia and respite care across 67 bedrooms. The home in Southampton – the third care home for Hartford in the area – will offer residential, dementia and respite care across 70 bedrooms.

Both homes will have sustainability credentials and will be rated BREEAM Excellent, with renewable energy elements including solar panels, heat pumps and battery storage systems.

The two homes are being developed by Highwood, supported by Octopus Investments’ specialist healthcare funding division.

Kevin Shaw, chief executive of Hartford Care, said: “[The homes] now brings us to 20 homes with over 1,100 bedrooms and we are well on our way to achieving our goal to double in size within three years and provide our specialist care and ‘home from home’ environment to as many people as possible.”

Phil Prosser, development director at Highwood, commented: “We’re delighted to have agreed terms on these state-of-the-art schemes with Hartford Care. It’s exciting to reignite a relationship that stretches back over a decade and has led to a number of care home project successes – we’re very much looking forward to working together again.”

Hartford Care’s head office is based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Its care homes are located in Bristol, Berkshire (Burnham and Maidenhead), Devon (Sidmouth), Dorset (Poole), Hampshire (Aldershot, Barton-on-Sea, Four Marks, Hythe, Portsmouth, Winchester and Woodlands), Isle of Wight (Bembridge, Ryde and Shanklin), Oxfordshire (Witney) and Wiltshire (Downton). A further care home in Swindon is due to open this year.