Contractor chosen for Scunthorpe care centre

The new short-break care centre is designed to support young people with complex disabilities, and their families.

It is being built on the site of a former community health centre that was demolished earlier this year, a mile from Scunthorpe town centre on Alvingham Road.

North Lincolnshire Council selected Hobson & Porter from its construction & highways framework.

The new single storey building will include multiple sensory rooms, dining and lounge areas, staff bedrooms, 13 specialist accessible residential bedrooms for children with complex needs, accessible kitchens and bathrooms, a medical room, administrative spaces and family rooms. The centre will also have gardens and outdoor space for staff, residents and families. Work is due to complete in spring 2023.

Joe Booth, business development director of Hobson & Porter, said: “This is a significant contract for Hobson & Porter and further strengthens our position in the health and social care sector. It’s also very rewarding to win another good-sized project through North Lincolnshire Council’s Construction & Highways Framework and follows a £4m MRI project in Grimsby, for Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which we won through the same framework and completed last year.”

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