Decision details

Purpose of Report: To provide Members with the results of the consultation undertaken with the residents, relatives and staff of Windsor House residential care home to explore the option to close the home with current residents moving to alternative accommodation, and for Members to make a decision about whether to close Windsor House. The context for this decision is that the Older Persons Accommodation Programme aims to meet people’s changing needs for accommodation with care, and in-particular the needs of those with dementia and the demographic challenges faced by the city, through delivering additional Extra Care accommodation and new, good quality, residential and nursing care accommodation.

Executive will be asked to: Make a decision about whether to close Windsor House residential care home and, if a decision is made to close it, require that residents’ moves to their new homes are carefully planned and managed in line with the Moving Homes Safely protocol. Should a decision to close be made, the report will also seek agreement for the future use of the site.

Resolved:  (i)      That the outcome of the consultation undertaken with residents, family, carers and staff of Windsor House to explore the option to close the home, with current residents moving to alternative accommodation, be noted.

                   (ii)      That Windsor House residential care home be closed, and that the moves of residents to their new homes prior to the closure be carefully planned and managed in line with the Moving Homes Safely protocol.     

                   (iii)     That alternative uses for the Windsor House site, in total 0.45 acres, be examined in accordance with the revised Corporate Asset Strategy, firstly for use as the Centre For Excellence for disabled children and their families and, should this use not be feasible, for housing use and, should this use not be possible, for the site to be sold forthwith in order to generate a capital receipt to support the wider Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme.

Reason:     In accordance with the aim of the Programme to address the needs of York’s ageing population by delivering improved care homes for the current and future generations, and taking into account the results of the consultation on the closure of Windsor House.