The completion of 21 new supported living homes in South Tyneside is helping address the lack of specialist supported housing options in the borough.
The partnership between local housing provider Karbon Homes and South Tyneside Council has delivered specialist housing across two sites in Hebburn and Jarrow, designed to support residents with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs to live more independently.
Zoey Hawthorne, Assistant Director of Development Delivery at Karbon Homes, said:
“Schemes like these very rarely get built but are vital when it comes to ensuring people with additional needs have the opportunity to live independently within their community. We’re really proud to have partnered with South Tyneside Council to bring both of these schemes to completion, a collaboration which has helped meet the demand for specialist housing in the borough. We look forward to meeting the first residents who move in.”
Residents moving into the new homes will live independently but with the benefit of 24/7 onsite care and support should they need it. Both schemes include staff accommodation, manned by care providers commissioned by South Tyneside Council.
The schemes form part of the Council’s wider Adult Social Care Accommodation Strategy aimed at supporting people who may need care and support to live independently in the community.
Cllr Ruth Berkley, Lead Member for Adults, Health and Independence at South Tyneside Council said: “It’s fantastic to see this specialist scheme finished and ready to welcome its first tenants. This is the second supported living complex we have completed in as many months and I’m delighted that we are providing these bespoke homes for people with learning disabilities and autism.”
11 of the new homes, compromising of 5 bungalows and a block of six one and two-bed flats, have been built on the former Nolan Hall on Concorde Way in Jarrow and the remaining 10 homes, all bungalows, are located on the former Father James Walsh Day Centre site on Hedgeley Road in Hebburn.
The new homes will be managed by Karbon and have been allocated through South Tyneside Council, prioritising tenants who may otherwise need to go into residential care. It’s both preventing the need to move tenants outside the borough and enabling some to move back.
The delivery of both has been part-funded by Homes England, through Karbon’s Strategic Partnership with the Government’s housing delivery agency.
