Another £340,000 needed for Connaught Care Home extension
ALDERNEY’S States needs another £340,000 of taxpayers’ money to finally complete the extension of the Connaught Care Home in the island.
The Connaught care home has 27 bedrooms with 24-hour care, alongside 14 self-contained studio apartments, which can be used for both long term and respite care.
The extension is adding another much-needed 13 new residential rooms and ancillary rooms.
The initial project was approved in March 2020, just before the Covid pandemic, at a cost of £1.29m. 18 months later another £737,000 was voted for the project after a combination of Brexit and Covid sent costs soaring.
In June this year the island’s Policy & Finance Committee was advised that a further £50,000 was needed, and £100,000 was accounted for in the revised 2024 Budget.
In October the committee received a report to authorise £35,000 in additional spending, two-thirds of that on electrical entrance doors for the home.
Next week the States of Alderney will be asked to agree a further, and final, cash payment of £340,000, half of that having already been invoiced, to finally complete the job.
The agreed programme of works remaining, costing £170,000, includes handrails, lift servicing and a switch to a wheelchair-friendly driveway to the home.
The States said that the building was due to be completed this coming weekend before the States meets to discuss it.
