Care Home Plan for Chiswick Terrace Set for Go Ahead
85 bed facility will provide residential care for people with dementia
A CGI of the planned new building looking north up Acton Lane. Picture: Hunter
April 11, 2025
A plan for a six-storey residential care home on Acton Lane, close to Chiswick High Road, is being recommended for approval by council planners.
The application P/2024/4316 by Portobello Trust & Care Concern Group (CCG) is to demolish the existing buildings and construct a 85-bed facility catering to people suffering from dementia at 1-15 Chiswick Terrace, Acton Lane, (W4 5LY).
Residents would be looked after by nursing staff at the facility 24 hours a day. They will have access to communal amenities: cinema, hair salon, café and multi-purpose rooms. It will include dementia-friendly sensory gardens with raised planters, aromatic plants, and features like bird boxes and a traditional post box. There will be an ambulance bay at the rear in Essex Place.
The building will have green roofs, biodiversity planting, and 240m² of rooftop solar panels and is designed for energy efficiency using air-source heat pumps, solar shading, and natural ventilation.
The applicant already runs 75 care homes in the UK and the design of the building is by Hunters Architects, specialists in dementia care design. It says that the materials chosen aim to harmonise with nearby buildings including the listed Old Packhorse pub.
The design is based on a “household model”, with clusters of 8–10 en-suite bedrooms and shared living areas to mimic a domestic environment.
A CGI view of the development looking south on Acton Lane. Picture: Hunters
A small retail unit will be retained at the front of the building but the existing shops will disappear.
Over 30 responses were made to the application voicing a mixture of opposition or support. The site already had approval for a mixed-residential and office development which would have contained six development with a gym in the basement but this appears to have been abandoned.
The planned buildings as seen from Essex Place. Picture: Hunters
A report recommending approval subject to s!06 agreement and conditions will be presented to councillors at a forthcoming meeting of the borough’s planning committee.
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