York’s Conservative-led administration is to invest £1.8m to update and improve the older peoples’ accommodation at Lincoln Court in Acomb, including creating seven new dementia-friendly flats and introducing an enhanced level of housing to help older people to maintain the ability to live independently.
The plans will include an improved individual living support offer, assisted bathing and therapy facilities, updated communal facilities for use by tenants and local residents and a base for community care staff.
The investment will also be used to create seven new one-bed apartments which will be dementia friendly, with four existing bedsits converted into four one-bedroomed apartments which will offer improved living space.
Besides fitting new windows and carrying out £500,000 of planned maintenance, the scheme will also include an improved boiler and plant room, an entrance lobby and communal lounge, an electric buggy store, gardens and improved car parking.
Conservative councillor Jenny Brooks, Executive member for housing and safer neighbourhoods said: “The investment at Lincoln Court will allow us to set out a new model for supported independent housing in York, called “Independent Living Plus”. It will serve an important housing need by allowing residents to live independently longer, as well as providing improved resources for both the local community and our community-based care staff.”