GB-Trent: Extra Care Housing Catering Provision

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Stoke on Trent City Council, in partnership with Sapphire, is developing 390 new apartments in an Extra Care Housing settings across three different sites in the City. This will include purpose built catering and restaurant facilities. The schemes are funded via the Government’s Private Finance Initiative but the catering services to be provided in each home are to be commissioned separately by the Council alone and must be commercially viable. The Housing Learning Improvement Network (Housing LIN) states that the ‘provision of a meal has become one of the defining features of extra care housing’ and these Retirement Village Developments will incorporate restaurant and catering facilities, which are considered to be a fundamental element of the communal spaces and services offered within modern extra care housing schemes. The Council now invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced individuals and companies wanting to develop their catering business by taking full responsibility for the management of these three restaurants.