Plan for care home on site of Spalding pub, The Birds

A company has applied to build a two-storey, 61-bed care home on the former site of The Birds pub in Halmer Gate, Spalding.

The pub served its last pint on Sunday, December 9 with owners Hungry Horse revealing in November that it was about to close.

The application to build the care home has come from the Glenholme Healthcare Group in association with Life Property Construction Ltd.

Documents submitted to the council reveal the care home will employ the equivalent of 61 full-time staff.

Developers say the care home will help towards an unmet need in the area for specialised beds for people in need of care and living with dementia, providing them with "state of the art environments".

Residents' bedrooms will measure 16sq m and each will have additional space with an en suite wet room, and there will be day space - lounges and dining rooms - outside the bedrooms.

Among benefits outlined by the developers are:

* It will allow first class care to be delivered to elderly residents who require specialist dementia care

* It will allow houses to be released in the community and hospital beds to be freed up by elderly residents

* The building has been designed to provide access to secure outside space, views across the gardens and landscaping "with plenty of space to maximise natural light into all of the proposed building

Plans show there will be 23 parking spaces for visitors and staff with two disabled spaces.

The Glenholme Health Care Group is based in Eton, Berkshire, and the London-based DWA Architects, who have designed the Spalding scheme, are specialists and award winners in the care home sector.