Report back on Millom Neighbourhood Forum

Attended the Millom Neighbourhood Forum this evening.

There were two major presentations. The first was from the County Council's Adult Social Care department on the current proposals to replace six residential care homes in Cumbria with new and better buildings, mostly adjacent to or near local community hospitals.

There was also a presentation on the local Nature reserve and how it can help with the economic regeneration of the Millom and Haverigg area, and the usual round of grants applications.

The Care home proposals is the first part of a package aimed at a major improvement of the care homes in Cumbria. Two of the six care homes due to be replaced are in the new Copeland constituency: Lapstone House in Millom and Ravensfield Care Home in Keswick.

In the case of both Lapstone House and Ravensfield, the plan is to replace the existing homes with a new and better building adjacent to the local community hospital.

The idea of a "Health Campus" in Millom bringing together the Care Home, Millom Community Hospital and ideally other health services such as the GP surgery was strongly supported in principle by residents at both tonight's meeting and the "Closer to Home" consultation meetings, although obviously people had legitimate concerns about the details of how things would work

Residents of Keswick who are interested in hearing more about the proposal as it affects them will be able to hear a similar presentation at the next Keswick Neighbourhood Forum which is due to be held on 4th March at 7pm in the Quaker Meeting House.

The other four care homes in Cumbria affected by phase one of the proposals are Inglewood in Wigton, Moot Lodge in Brampton, Grisedale Croft in Alston, and Greengarth in Penrith.

More detail of the care homes consultation can be found online at

www.cumbria.gov.uk/adultsocialcare/carehomesconsultation

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