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Plans are lodged to extend Isobel Fraser Care Home in Inverness – owners hope to demolish extension and replace it with a new one to help with upgraded infection control requirements


By Ian Duncan

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Isobel Fraser Care Home on Mayfield Road.
Isobel Fraser Care Home on Mayfield Road.

Owners of an Inverness care home are hoping to demolish an existing extension and replace it with a new one to help with upgraded infection control requirements.

They have applied to Highland Council for planning permission, as well as listed building consent, to make the change to Isobel Fraser Care Home in Mayfield Road.

According to the application form, the existing extension is described as a kitchen and service corridor and the proposed replacement will be a new staff welfare and service reception extension.

The site covers an area of 231m sq, is to the east of the back of the building and identified as the optimum location for the new structure.

A design statement reads: “The Isobel Fraser Nursing Home requires new and improved staff facilities to improve staff amenity and to ensure ongoing necessary hygiene standards in this highly commended nursing home, particularly in light of current circumstances and the corresponding necessary upgrading of infection control requirements.

“Facilities are to include suitably sized changing and toilet facilities, laundry store, patient equipment store, medication preparation area, and to provide a safe and secure deliveries reception area.”

The building has been category B listed since June 1996 when it was described as dating from 1936 and as a “home of rest”.

According to the design statement, which was submitted as part of the planning application, extensions to the original building include the large front conservatory, access ramps, and the rear kitchen access corridor to the east, which is the site for the current proposed extension.

It added: “Additional ancillary buildings are also located within the service area to the rear of the property, and will include the proposed new storage shed with office and toilet.”

According to the design statement the existing staff entrance and service corridor is a glass and timber clad, timber framed lean-to extension, which was designed and built between 2007 and 2009.

The report states: “The new staff welfare extension will replace this earlier extension, being sited over and to the south-west of the existing footprint.

“The new accommodation to be provided, essentially changing areas, toilets, stores, and staff and delivery access, requires levels of privacy and security that preclude the provision of a matching fenestration pattern to the existing, although the provision of good quality natural lighting from a high level is very desirable.”

The extension will have suitably proportioned timber cladding which it is hoped will ensure appreciation of the original building.


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