The completion of 21 new supported living homes in South Tyneside is helping address the lack of specialist supported housing options in the borough.
In partnership with South Tyneside Council, we've delivered the specialist new homes across two sites in Hebburn and Jarrow, designed to support residents with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs to live more independently.
Zoey Hawthorne, Assistant Director of Development Delivery at Karbon Homes, said:
“Schemes like these very rarely get built but are vital when it comes to ensuring people with additional needs have the opportunity to live independently within their community.
“We’re really proud to have partnered with South Tyneside Council to bring both of these schemes to completion, a collaboration which has helped meet the demand for specialist housing in the borough. We look forward to meeting the first residents who move in.”
Residents moving into the new homes will live independently but with the benefit of 24/7 onsite care and support should they need it. Both schemes include staff accommodation, manned by care providers commissioned by South Tyneside Council.
The schemes form part of the Council’s wider Adult Social Care Accommodation Strategy aimed at supporting people who may need care and support to live independently in the community.
Cllr Ruth Berkley, Lead Member for Adults, Health and Independence at South Tyneside Council said: “It’s fantastic to see this specialist scheme finished and ready to welcome its first tenants. This is the second supported living complex we have completed in as many months and I’m delighted that we are providing these bespoke homes for people with learning disabilities and autism.
“Our residents have told us they would prefer to live independently in the community rather than go into residential care. These properties are far more than just bricks and mortar; they provide a place people can call home, living independently but able to access any support they need.”
11 of the new homes, compromising of 5 bungalows and a block of six one and two-bed flats, have been built on the former Nolan Hall on Concorde Way in Jarrow and the remaining 10 homes, all bungalows, are located on the former Father James Walsh Day Centre site on Hedgeley Road in Hebburn.
The new homes will be managed by us and have been allocated through South Tyneside Council, prioritising tenants who may otherwise need to go into residential care. It’s both preventing the need to move tenants outside the borough and enabling some to move back.
We've worked with construction partner, Able Construction, as well as P+HS Architects and Artis Consulting to bring both schemes to fruition.
The delivery of both has been part-funded by Homes England, through our Strategic Partnership with the Government’s housing delivery agency.
The strategic partnership has provided us with £181m in funding to deliver over 2,300 new affordable homes across the North East and Yorkshire over the next few years, over 10% of which has been dedicated to the development of new homes for people requiring additional support needs.
The completion of 21 new supported living homes in South Tyneside is helping address the lack of specialist supported housing options in the borough.
In partnership with South Tyneside Council, we've delivered the specialist new homes across two sites in Hebburn and Jarrow, designed to support residents with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs to live more independently.
Zoey Hawthorne, Assistant Director of Development Delivery at Karbon Homes, said:
“Schemes like these very rarely get built but are vital when it comes to ensuring people with additional needs have the opportunity to live independently within their community.
“We’re really proud to have partnered with South Tyneside Council to bring both of these schemes to completion, a collaboration which has helped meet the demand for specialist housing in the borough. We look forward to meeting the first residents who move in.”
Residents moving into the new homes will live independently but with the benefit of 24/7 onsite care and support should they need it. Both schemes include staff accommodation, manned by care providers commissioned by South Tyneside Council.
The schemes form part of the Council’s wider Adult Social Care Accommodation Strategy aimed at supporting people who may need care and support to live independently in the community.
Cllr Ruth Berkley, Lead Member for Adults, Health and Independence at South Tyneside Council said: “It’s fantastic to see this specialist scheme finished and ready to welcome its first tenants. This is the second supported living complex we have completed in as many months and I’m delighted that we are providing these bespoke homes for people with learning disabilities and autism.
“Our residents have told us they would prefer to live independently in the community rather than go into residential care. These properties are far more than just bricks and mortar; they provide a place people can call home, living independently but able to access any support they need.”
11 of the new homes, compromising of 5 bungalows and a block of six one and two-bed flats, have been built on the former Nolan Hall on Concorde Way in Jarrow and the remaining 10 homes, all bungalows, are located on the former Father James Walsh Day Centre site on Hedgeley Road in Hebburn.
The new homes will be managed by us and have been allocated through South Tyneside Council, prioritising tenants who may otherwise need to go into residential care. It’s both preventing the need to move tenants outside the borough and enabling some to move back.
We've worked with construction partner, Able Construction, as well as P+HS Architects and Artis Consulting to bring both schemes to fruition.
The delivery of both has been part-funded by Homes England, through our Strategic Partnership with the Government’s housing delivery agency.
The strategic partnership has provided us with £181m in funding to deliver over 2,300 new affordable homes across the North East and Yorkshire over the next few years, over 10% of which has been dedicated to the development of new homes for people requiring additional support needs.
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