Care home provider Oakland Care has purchased a 70-bedroom care home development site in Fleet, Hampshire.

Planning consent has been granted for the home scheme, whose amenities will includes a café bistro, hair salon, lounge and dining rooms, balcony and terraces, and landscape gardens.

Oakland Care has finalised the purchase of the site from Frontier Estates, with the development becoming the 13th addition to the business’s portfolio of care homes across the Southeast and London.

With work set to commence shortly towards a target completion date of 2027, the home will be all electric-powered.

Richard Dooley, director of development at Oakland Care, said: “Over the years we have become well-recognised for the outstanding care we deliver to our residents, and this site provides us with a great opportunity to support more people over the coming years as part of an expanding portfolio of home across the wider Southeast area.

“The new home will also form part of our new strategy of developing all electric-powered, net zero homes which will be BREEAM accredited. This is a key strand of our ambitions as a care home provider who is committed to leading the way in our approach to combatting the climate crisis. It demonstrates a big step forward against our environmental strategy with sustainability not only championed by our team members, residents, and their friends and family, but placed within the very build and function of our care homes.”