Work underway on £10.8m dementia care facility

Work is underway on a new £10.8m specialist dementia care facility in Harrogate which is set to create about 250 jobs.Vida Court is the third facility in the town Vida Healthcare and is set to open in summer 2021.The new building will provide 100 bedrooms across eight individual ‘houses’, with specialist features including a large communal area designed to imitate a village environment with its own shop, coffee shop, cinema, hairdresser, events room and easy access to outside spaces.The facility will also incorporate significant workspace areas to provide a Vida Academy training centre for staff and a new headquarters facility for Vida’s head office personnel, currently located elsewhere in the town. The company employs 450 staff.Vida Healthcare has previously achieved two ‘outstanding’ ratings from the Care Quality Commission for its two existing dementia facilities in Harrogate.Designed by Leeds-based Den Architecture, the building works will be developed by a Yorkshire-based team comprising Projex Building Solutions, which has advised on all three Vida facilities and will provide project management, cost consultancy and health and safety advice, with the build contract being undertaken by Caddick Construction, part of Knottingley-based Caddick Group.