A large care home complex in South Bristol is to close, leaving relatives and council chiefs searching for alternative places for dozens of elderly and vulnerable people. Bristol City Council and the relatives of residents at the Amerind Grove Care Home have been told it will remain open until all the residents have been found somewhere else to live, but will close straight after that.
The care home is owned and run by the nation’s largest care home operator, HC-One. In a letter to relatives, HC-One’s managing director Geoff Edwards told them they can’t get enough staff to work there. Bristol Live understands the site - on prime development land close to the Tobacco Factory on North Street - is already being marketed for sale to developers.
The care home is a large number of bungalows spread out on a big 3.4 acre site located on Raleigh Road in Ashton Gate, just behind the Tobacco Factory on North Street and the Aldi supermarket. While there is no confirmation of what will happen to the site when the care home closes, Bristol Live understands there are already plans for hundreds of flats in six-storey buildings being drawn up, and initial contact has been made with city council planners by the site's agents.
