A new care home could be built in Maidenhead by an award-winning care group.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have received plans to build a care home on the land of a late 19th-century detached house with "substantial gardens" on Westmorland Road.

Boutique Care Homes Ltd hope to build a 70-bedroom residential care home with access, parking, landscaping and associated works, following the demolition of all existing buildings on the site.

The company won the award for Small Care Group of the Year at the 2023 National Care Awards.

They boast their care homes are equipped for residential and dementia care and adapted to meet demand.

The proposals comprise the construction of a three-storey care home on the site with three blocks intersecting centrally in a Y-shaped layout.

A basement will also be built with back-of-house facilities, kitchen, laundry, plant room and staff facilities.

The ground floor will include an entrance foyer and reception, café, hair salon, dining room, administration offices, storerooms, lounges and 20 en-suite bedrooms.

The first floor is designated as "specialist dementia", comprising of two units with lounges and dining rooms, some with outside access. quiet lounges, seating areas, administration offices, storerooms and 28 en-suite dementia bedrooms.

The second floor comprises of storerooms, lounge and dining rooms, outside space, 22 en-suite bedrooms. Back-of-house facilities, staff restrooms, training room and furniture store.

In the application, Grade II listed semi-detached cottages Cromwell Cottage and Hill Cottage are given special consideration, but there is said to be "dense vegetation screening them".

This design has been chosen to enable the retention of as many trees on the site as possible.

In the planning application, it is stated the principle of the demolition of the building has been accepted by the Council in the pre-application response.

The applicants believe that the site represents a "fantastic opportunity to create a much-needed care facility of exceptional quality" in the area.

Eleanor Hamilton of Westmorland Road has objected to the plans, stating: "Our road is quiet, tree-lined and consisting of mostly detached residential properties off the busy Bath Road. The idea of a 70-bed care home is beyond belief."

She also noted concerns with increased traffic, privacy, parking and noise.