Huge Cardiff care home backed

A huge care home is to be built in Cardiff for elderly people and those with dementia after plans were approved, creating more than 100 jobs.Care provider Hallmark Care Homes is behind the 81-bedroom scheme at Melrose Hall in the St Mellons district.The brownfield site has partly vacant office buildings which will be demolished to make way for the facility.Lined up is team study and clinical and medical spaces, cinema, lounges, dining room and activity rooms, as well as celebration spaces.There would also be hair and nail salons, treatment and sensory rooms, drug and medical storage spaces, kitchen and laundry areas and external amenity space including gardens and terraces.Documents submitted as part of the application to Cardiff Council said the proposed development will extend to a maximum of 3.5 storeys.The application said the scheme will provide residential, nursing and specialist dementia care tailored to meet the individual medical, physical, emotional and social needs of its residents.It added: “The scheme would improve the health of elderly residents living in the local area, relieve the pressures on the NHS, the release of much-needed family housing and create circa 105 full-time equivalent jobs.”Hallmark’s experience is that the majority of their team members live locally to their sites, so many of the jobs will support local people and the regional economy.”Cardiff Council has granted permission for the application under delegated powers.