Plans to replace care home with 14 apartments

I have to say that I was distressed by this planning application. As someone who has attempted to find appropriate care for both my mother and mother in law it does seem to me that there is a lack of appropriate care places. I am actually angry that in the “Design and Access Statement for this application it states, “relevant stakeholders have been informed about the planning application”. I would have hoped that elderly residents of this home, and their relatives, would have been shown a greater level of respect than to be referred to as, “stakeholders”. Also that they can so easily be dismissed on the grounds that, “it is of note that there are a number of other care homes and homes for the elderly in Wilmslow”. Anyone who has attempted to find a place for someone in a Care Home knows the difficulties of finding, - not just any old place, but the most appropriate place, which has vacancies at that point in time. It may be that Hillside is no longer viable, but given that there is a shortage of extra- care facilities in the North of the
Borough compared to the South, I would have thought that a joint public/private venture to
transform Hillside into an Extra-Care Facility would be a more appropriate route, along the lines of Smithy Croft in Heald Green. Before someone comments that young people need two bedroomed homes too, I would point to the fact that there are a number of 2 bedroomed homes in Bollin Park, immediately adjacent to this site.

How can Cheshire East allow such a permission to go through.
My late Mother was in the Respite one at Handforth, which was closed at the first breath of Cheshire East's coming into being, and not much later, one in Cumberland Street in Macclesfield was sold by CE, presumably to pay for the errors made by officials, so in our area there are at least 2 less. Recently, they tried to shut another one in Macclesfield, burt there was a large outcry, and they desisted.
Then we hear CE going on about facilities for the elderly. Well. hopefully, they will listen for once, and say no to this application, but seeing who, I doubt it, as it seems these homes are becoming less and less.

Absolutely disgusting! Hillside cared wonderfully for my brother in law until he died in May, and they are the last private care home in the area. All the others are owned by major concerns and charge extortionate amounts for care, be it residential or nursing, even with Social Support towards the cost, families are expected to pay huge top ups. Where are future people with care needs supposed to go? Not everyone in Wilmslow is a multi millionaire who can afford private care. Jones Homes would be better giving a bit back by building a care home with facilities including staff instead of over priced apartments. We will all be old one day, what then?

Sad though it may be to lose Hillside you cannot force the owners to keep it open if they don't want to. It may well be that it is difficult to keep up with new regulations in an old property and I know for a fact that, contrary to popular belief, these places are not a licence to print money. It is rather like the hue and cry when people wanted the Rex Cinema to remain open even though it was losing money.

Carol, agree it is difficult for older premises these days by the mountain of regulations which exist, but I would have thought that someone surely at Cheshire East understands that to lose what there is a need for, and lose a beautiful historic building is not in the interest of anyone. What I discovered was that whilst I might be impressed by super - modern facilities, many elderly people are not happy in that sort of environment. They regard it as "like a hospital". They want to get "comfy". Yes that meant, what I would regard, as an old fashioned environment but it was what they are used to. The beauty of extra-care is that residents have their own little flat and yet carers are there on premises to help with basic tasks. It works out cheaper than care homes from the authorities point of view, and more importantly residents keep their independence for as long as possible. I am not blaming the owners of Hillside, - there must have been some sort of dialogue with Cheshire East even though it is a private residential home.

Sadly it's another example of Wilmslow as only a town to make money from. Just tear down or develope any piece of land or structure and keep cramming in more people. No consideration for infrastucture to cope with the extra load.

Sad as it may be..... unfortunately most things in life have to pay their own way. With the dispicable levels of investment in social care... it was inevitable.

With regards to making money... this is truly, the most hypocritical astonishing clap trap peddled on here.

Check your mortgage statement... bank balance...... LTV..... salary expectations... pension pots.... sips... Isas. It's all predicated on wealth generation so to pontificate about other (yes jones) trying to make a few quid is ridiculous.