La Vieille Plage at Sandy Hook has been built by the Guernsey Housing Association working with Health & Social Care and the flats have been designed to accommodate residents with varying degrees of physical and learning disabilities.
Each of the one-bedroom flats has its own kitchen and bathroom facilities but there is also a communal kitchen and lounge area for those who want to socialise.
And while 11 of the units will be for those who require high-level care and support, three are for residents who can live more independently while still needing access to a member of staff on-site.
Staff members have an office and a room for one to sleep while two others work the night shift, and there is a separate therapy room for residents.
Five of the residents will come from Sunnybrook, which is the name that a section of the old Duchess of Kent Home was given after the closure of Sunnybrook specialist care home in 2016. It will no longer exist once the five move out.
‘This is going to be completely transformational for the residents who move in here,’ said Employment & Social Security president Peter Roffey.
‘ESS was responsible for the affordable housing development programme and this has been an important part of that programme.’
HSC vice-president Marc Leadbeater was delighted that the home would soon be in use.
‘The Sunnybrook facilities are so out-dated. It’s terrible to think we have service users in accommodation like that in the first place,’ he said.
Another unsuitable site was in Pedvin Street, and service users would be moving out of there too, he said.
GHA chief operations officer and deputy chief executive Lisa de Kooker said this project was the closest it had to completion.
‘It will be complete by the end of the summer,’ she said.
‘It’s really exciting that people can move out of their accommodation to something that’s built for their needs which should hopefully improve their independence.
‘We’re really pleased.’
DRP Architecture was the architects for the project and Rihoy and Son the main contractors.
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