A large-scale planning application is seeking to build a 67 bed care home overlooking the Ely Sailing Lake.

Excelcare, a family-run care home company, is looking to open the care home on Prickwillow Road next to Ely Sailing Club.

They are working with Guildmore, a design and development company, according to the application.

The final design proposal is to build a one-storey care home made up of two wings. The ground floor will compromise 45 bedrooms, while the first floor will have 22. All of the bedrooms are planned to be en-suites.

The plans state that the care home will also have dining rooms, lounges, activity spaces, a café, private dining, a cinema and hairdressers.

The Design and Access Statement reads: "The proposed care home has been designed to be splayed to make the most of the view to the south over the sailing lake, as well as providing an opportunity for a large, landscaped garden within the centre of the care home."

Further into the Statement, it confirms that Ely has been identified as an area of "priority" for additional nursing and dementia care home capacity by Cambridgeshire County Council.

It states: "Informal correspondence received by Cambridgeshire County Council confirms that demand profiles have identified East Cambridgeshire, in particular Ely, as an area of priority for additional nursing and dementia care home capacity."

A spokesperson for Vestar, who prepared the Statement, said that there is an "insufficient number" of future-proof care homes in the catchment area to meet the "rapidly growing ageing population".

There are three modern purpose-built care homes and a total of nine care homes that lack full en-suite wet room provision in the catchment area.

To read the planning application in full, you can access it via the online planning portal on East Cambridgeshire District Council's website. The reference is: 24/00713/FUM