Extra Care Housing
Extra care housing is self-contained apartments designed for older people.
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Surrey County Council (SCC) has received outline planning permission for its development of new, high quality, affordable Extra Care Housing on the site of the former Auriol Junior School Playing Field off Salisbury Road in Worcester Park, in the Borough of Epsom & Ewell.
The new development will offer self-contained apartments designed for older people, in a setting where care and support can be delivered by an on-site provider.
The outline planning application was approved by Planning and Regulatory Committee, subject to conditions, on Wednesday 26 June 2024 (item 36/24) and details of the approved scheme can be found here.
You can watch recordings of our consultation events for residents which took place in 2022.
We have held consultation events for residents to take part and find out more. You can now watch the recordings. 
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Extra Care Housing is specialist, high-quality accommodation designed for older people who need additional support and care to keep living independently. Each self-contained flat has its own front door and each development offers communal facilities with activities to encourage people to participate and develop a supportive community. An onsite care provider will support residents to maintain their health and wellbeing and staff are available 24 hours a day to respond to emergencies.
We know that with the right housing and the right care, in the right place, people are less likely to feel isolated or lonely, will live independently for longer, and are less likely to require hospital admission. Extra Care Housing delivers homes designed with care and support in mind, with facilities and staffing in place to help older people to live as independently as they wish.
Currently there is not enough affordable Extra Care Housing in Surrey. This means that many older people who can no longer live in their existing homes because of their needs, often end up having to move into a care home. With more Extra Care Housing available, older people can live long-term in a supportive and well-designed community.
Extra Care Housing works well for many people. Surrey’s existing Extra Care Housing provision has provided accommodation with care and support for many older people over a number of years, enabling them to live as active members of their local communities.
• Extra Care Housing is designed to overcome challenges with our existing accommodation:
• changing resident expectations including high demand for self-contained flats which aren’t always readily available
• older properties which cannot accommodate changes to residents’ care and support needs over time e.g. for wheelchair accessibility and lifts; and
• the need for facilities that maintain privacy and dignity e.g. ensuite bath/shower rooms.
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