New Largs care home with cinema set to open early next year

FP McCann have provided thin flat roof tiles for installation as the new development takes a step closer.

Once complete early next year, the new 80-bed care home will provide accommodation for its elderly residents over three levels.

Amongst its many state-of-the art facilities will be activity rooms and dining areas, a café, a gym and a cinema.

The former Warren Park Nursing Home was demolished in 2022 in advance of the new building work being undertaken by Northern Ireland based construction group Corramore on behalf of client the Care Concern Group.

Aerial perspective of new look care home (Image: FP McCann)

FP McCann is the UK'S largest precast concrete manufacturer and supplier, and have supplied its thin leading edge interlocking concrete roof tiles branded 'Thin Flat' to the new facility.

Design outlook for new cafe facility (Image: North Ayrshire Council) When it opens, the new care home facility will consist of accommodation over three levels with activity rooms, lounges, gym, café, cinema room, dining areas and quiet rooms.

Supporting accommodation including a staff room, kitchen, laundry, and storage area will be located at ground level and first floor level.

While the care home is to accommodate frail and elderly residents, people with dementia need to be in relatively small groups to avoid distress.

The building layout has been set in such a way as to provide 'neighbourhoods' of 12 to 22 residents.

Design outlook for new care home (Image: NAC)

Sean Osborne, procurement manager for Corramore, says, “The low-profile black concrete tiles have given the roof on the new building a distinctive slate-like appearance as to the architect’s specification.

"The durable tiles were easy to fix with minimum breakage recorded.”

Warren Park Nursing Home closed around nine years ago and the building had consequently fallen into a serious state of disrepair.

The former Warren Park building was in poor condition with the cost of remedial works considered uneconomical and did not meet the basic compliance issues which fell below the current care standards.

Planning permission has also been received for the addition of residents balconies on the first and second floors in the new care home development currently under construction.