Chorley Extra Care

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Primrose gardens began its journey on the site of the long stay car park on Fleet Street in Chorley town centre, where the demolition of the ambulance hall and the former primrose cottage, which inspired its name today was undertaken.

The scheme in total took just over 2 years to complete, and the first resident moved in in October 2019. Primrose Gardens is ideally located in the centre of Chorley with all local amenities to hand such as:

• sports and leisure
• entertainment
• shopping
• excellent transport links
• community and health centres

Primrose extra care scheme offers:

• 65 self-contained 1 or 2 bedroom modern apartments over 3 floors on a rental basis only
• on- site trained and dedicated care and support staff (registered with CQC)
• emergency background care (alarms) throughout the scheme, with 24 hour help available
• communal facilities such as; lounge, quiet lounge, pamper bathroom, guest overnight room (bookable with a fee), laundry facilities, large landscaped gardens, scooter storage, café/bistro, hairdressers, conference room, planned activities, exercise classes, 24 hour reception staff
• sense of community and safe living
• pets welcome.

Accommodation 

The 65 apartments are set over 3 floors and can be accessed via stairs or lift.

Each self-contained stylish apartment is designed to be user friendly and will have:

• a spacious living room with telephone points and aerial sockets
• Wi-Fi available but this will need to be arranged by each tenant
• high quality kitchen, including a full range of modern wall and base units, with built in hob and oven
• level access en-suite shower room
• all apartments are double glazed and centrally heated
• each apartment has an outside terrace/ balcony with enough room for a small table and chairs
• adaptations can be made such as grab rails added etc
• alarms throughout, each resident is given an alarm pendant to call for emergency care/ support should this be required.

Care

The care support will depend on your needs which will be detailed in your assessment, these can include the following:

• support with washing/ dressing etc
• managing medication
• household tasks
• social activities
• managing finances (not appointee ship)