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The Pension Board’s Manormead care home is to remain as supported accommodation replaces the 1970s flats on the site.

The Pension Board’s Manormead care home is to remain as supported accommodation replaces the 1970s flats on the site

A supported housing complex is to be built on the Church of England Pensions Board site in Hindhead, Surrey. Manormead, the existing scheme, is a series of self-contained flats, built in the 1970s and opened by the Queen Mother. A state of the art facility at the time, it no longer meets today's more rigorous standards and will now be demolished and replaced. All the residents have been found alternative accommodation and will be given the option of moving back into the new building in 2007.

Designed by architects Hurley Robertson and Associates, the new Manormead will provide supported accommodation for 36 residents, with a dining room, library and chapel. Uniquely for the seven centres run by the Pensions Board, Manormead has a purpose built care home on the same site. This offers respite or permanent nursing care available to all the Board’s beneficiaries.

The Manormead project will complete the Board’s programme of modernisation that has seen all its supported housing schemes either refurbished or re-built over the last seven years.