Casa Di Lusso is hoping to increase bed numbers. Picture: Google

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Bridgwater care home seeks to increase bed numbers

Paul JonesSeptember 9, 20250 Comment0

A BRIDGWATER care home is hoping to expand – creating 18 new bedrooms.

The Casa Di Lusso, in Bower Lane, is hoping to divide spaces currently allocated as assisted living units (ALUs) into bedrooms.

A planning application has been submitted to Somerset Council by Quadrant ABS Ltd on behalf of care home operator, N Notaro Homes Ltd.

“The current, and original layout of Casa Di Lusso includes units at the north eastern ends of ground and first floors, and to the entire second floor which were originally envisioned as ‘assisted living units’, where adults requiring only limited assistance in their day to day living could be accommodated, with each living space within these ‘ALUs’ being a self sufficient bed space, living space, wetroom and kitchenette,” the plans said.

“There are 24 of these spaces at Casa Di Lusso, with six on each of ground and first floors and 12 on the second floor.

“In practice these spaces have simply been used as extremely large bedrooms and managed in the same way as other bedrooms in the home.

“As each of the ALU rooms is based on a footprint corresponding to two bedrooms elsewhere in the home, it is a straightforward matter to subdivide each of these ALU rooms to provide two bedrooms of the same size, shape and format as the other, already generous bedrooms in the home.”

The plans also outlined the creation of extra communal, assisted bathing and operational space, on the second floor of the building.

“The proposals here show how each of the ALU spaces is proposed to be subdivided to form 18 additional bedrooms, increasing the total rooms at Casa Di Lusso to 106,” the application went on.

“All of the proposed alterations are within the existing footprint of the building with no external changes required to either the building’s elevations, the landscaping, parking, vehicular access, deliveries or waste management, other than provision of additional staff cycle parking to comply with Somerset transport policy.”

Planners at Somerset Council will now consider the application. For more details, and to comment, log on to somerset.gov.uk and search application reference 09/25/00019.