Turnkey healthcare development with full planning in Denbighshire, North Wales, goes up for sale

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Star Units Limited acquired full planning permission through Denbighshire County Council in November 2021 for the ‘Erection of a 198-bed Registered Care Home (Use Class C2), landscaping, parking facilities and associated works’. This circa 4.54-acre site is situated north of the St Asaph Business Park and is equidistant between the settlements of St Asaph and Bodelwyddan. The scheme is strategically positioned in a gateway location at Junction 26 of the A55: North Wales Expressway, providing excellent arterial route access to the whole region.

The consented scheme comprises a 198-bedroom care home (Use Class C2), with accommodation arranged in three blocks to potentially cater for a range of resident needs including reablement care, dementia care, palliative care, and general care to suit operators’ requirements. It also includes a suite of communal resident amenities including a café, a hair salon, a selection of lounge and dining spaces, a GP office and a family room. Externally, provision has been made for a landscaped communal courtyard garden, external landscaping, and 100 car parking spaces.

There is flexibility in the consented scheme which could allow for different configurations and a wide spectrum of operating models across the healthcare and later living sub-sectors. Potential uses for the scheme could include a private hospital, elderly care home, specialist care models including ABI or rehabilitation, extra care apartments, an integrated retirement community, retirement housing or supported later living accommodation. There may also be other uses subject to discussion with the developer.

Jordan Rundle, Director – Healthcare Investment & Development at Christie & Co, who is handling the sale, comments, “Our Wales Healthcare Market Insight report, published in May 2024, highlighted the increasing undersupply of market standard care beds in Wales with a greater need in North Wales, and that only four newly constructed elderly care homes have been opened in three years, none of which are located in the North Wales region and only serve to underpin the material requirement for market-standard beds in the region. The Ty Seren project can provide an immediately deliverable solution.”

Betsi Cadwallader Health Board, the largest in Wales, currently has a bed blocking issue of circa 370 beds and 96 per cent average occupancy within the 6,000 care beds across North Wales. The Ty Seren project can provide an immediately deliverable solution.

Furthermore, a collaborative LLP of locally based Orthopaedic surgeons has identified the Ty Seren scheme as having the ability to reduce NHS joint and associated surgery lists with 7,000 extra procedures per annum with the capacity to expand further. Their target patient group lies within NHS contracts from the whole of the UK, as no private facility in North Wales currently conducts NHS work. Private hospitals in Wales are not obliged to carry out any NHS work. The new First Minister of Wales has declared that she intends to use the private sector to reduce waiting lists, which places Ty Seren at the epicentre of recovery with the personnel, skills and dedicated housing immediately available for both local and national commissioned surgical contracts. A Professorial level Urology team and diagnostics group have expressed further interest.

The deliverability of the scheme in both planning and construction terms, in addition to its strategic location on the North Wales Expressway, means this is the most deliverable opportunity for established private, charitable or NHS provider operators to bring forward a scheme that meets the undeniable need for a broad range of healthcare-related accommodation in the region.

For further information on this opportunity, visit: https://christie.com/4270644/

Turnkey or Design and Build offers are preferred, subject to operators' bespoke final design, layout and specification.

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For further information on this press release, contact:
Phoebe Hill, Associate Director – Corporate Communications
P: 07540 063 598 or E: phoebe.hill@christie.com

Contact the agent:
Jordan Rundle MRICS – Head of Development & Investment
P: 07711 767 180 or E: jordan.rundle@christie.com 

Will Edwards MRICS – Healthcare Development & Investment                                 
P: 07860 189 704 or E: william.edwards@christie.com

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