Milestone as Extra Care Housing partnership submits first planning application

The first step in a £40million partnership programme to create 150 new extra care housing properties in the Borders has been taken.Plans for 39 new flats have been submitted by Eildon Housing Association on the site of a former warehouse at Glenfield Industrial Estate in Galashiels.The application is the first in the partnership programme with Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) which will see major investment in this type of housing model, which will enable a significantly greater number of elderly and vulnerable adults across the Borders to continue to live independently and receive care and support in their own homes.Extra care housing offers the possibility of supporting higher levels of dependency but also providing an environment for lively and active old age and is based on self-contained flats, rather than small rooms as in residential care, and is available 24 hours a day.