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There is a drop off turning area within the site to allow for the Care Home-owned minibus to pickup/drop off residents and other older people in the catchment area to the Day Care Centre. The Day Care Centre provides organised day facilities for older people in the catchment area where they can enjoy company, meals, drinks, and activities during the day. The Transport Statement and Travel Plan is being prepared by i-Transport in discussion with Highways Development Control.
As stated, the main entrance to the Care Home is off Waterloo Road and the service entrance for deliveries and other service vehicles is at the rear off Victoria Road. Access into both entrances is via steps and/or ramps. This is because the development is in an area of flood risk so the buildings ground floor is set approximately 600mm above the existing ground level which is the estimated flood level. The Flood Risk Assessment is being prepared by Graham Schofield Associates in discussion with Manx Utilities. With regards to drainage, it is intended to discharge the foul drainage to the mains sewer and the surface water to the existing surface water sewer via any required attenuation system. Graham Schofield Associates are in discussion with Manx Utilities about the proposed drainage strategy.
In the Care Home, each of the three floor levels is a self-contained 15 bedroom-cluster, with its own supporting residents' accommodation including dining/lounge with external balcony, assisted bathroom and quiet lounge; with supporting clinical rooms such as sluice rooms, cleaners rooms and a range of stores. Throughout the Care Home there is also supporting administration rooms such as staff offices, staff rooms, changing rooms, training rooms and overnight staff accommodation. The residents also enjoy other common rooms within the development such as the café, activity room and home cinema room. Catering and laundry are centralised on the premises, with food and laundry being transported throughout the Care Home on trollies. The Day Care Centre is at the rear of the development and is a single storey wing which shares the main catering kitchen so that meals and drinks can be provided to older persons resident in the community and the Ramsey and Northern catchment areas.
The proposed design shows a three storey 'terraced' façade along Waterloo Road and the side elevation from Waterloo Road to Victoria Road, in a contemporary interpretation of the nearby Victorian terrace facades, predominantly in a smooth self-coloured render, with a strong horizontal eaves line. The main façades are predominantly vertical with fenestration set in a regular rhythm along the street frontages. The front facade is broken up with $2 / 3$ storey bays finished in a contrasting render colour, with the roof of the end bays breaking the roof/eaves line and finished in Polyroof to give a lead appearance.
Due to the depth of the building, having bedrooms both sides of a central corridor, the design incorporates a twin mono pitched roof running the full length of the three-storey building. This allows for the creation of a twin gable often seen in Isle of Man architecture on the south-east and north-east elevations, helping to reduce the form and scale of the building. The twin roof is finished in artificial slate and the gables are finished with chimney stacks and concrete copings on the verges.
To reduce the visual impact on the rear garden of the Marine Gardens residential development at the rear of the site, the Day Care Centre which is located along the rear boundary is only single storey. The Day Care Centre elevations are designed to have a softer appearance and has a mix of self-coloured render and stone cladding.
The main entrance area of the Day Care Centre is designed to have the appearance of a welcoming stone cottage. The stone cladding finish on the Day Care Centre entrance and the stone cladding finish on the Waterloo Lane gables of the main Nursing Care Home are a recognition of the stonework on the adjacent former United Reform Church building.
The elevations of the internal courtyard of the Nursing Care Home are generally finished in self-coloured render and the contemporary vertical rhythm of the facades continue. The design centrepiece of the courtyard is the three-storey projecting 'dining room/lounge' portion of the building elevation. This projecting portion of the building is designed to be a striking glass and metal cladding panels centrepiece. The design allows for external spaces at all floor levels with access to a patio on ground floor, and access onto balconies on upper floors; all via sliding/folding doors.
Where the new development meets the existing pavements, the design shows regular rendered piers with railings, recreating the local existing aesthetic of having low walls, piers and railing fronting houses onto the highways. Where possible these piers and railings are reinforced and softened with planting beds which would contain shrubs and small ornamental trees. It is hoped to retain the main tree at the junction of Waterloo Road and Waterloo Lane, but there are several small ornamental trees that would be removed to make way for the development. The new trees to be planted would mitigate the loss of the small number of trees.
See Appendix B: Architectural Drawings.
Pitched Roof: Artificial slate at 40 degrees with mineral wool roll at ceiling level (between and over).
Flat Roof: Single ply membrane or resin-based liquid waterproofing system on PIR Rigid insulation board on concrete deck.
External Wall Finishes: Coloured render, feature stone cladding with quoins, natural stone, engineering brick plinth, Zinc with standing seams and vertical slate hanging.
External Walls: 325 mm cavity wall construction - 100 mm brick/block, 125 mm cavity with 75 mm PIR partial fill insulation, 100 block with plaster finish.
Internal Walls: 144mm/100mm AcouStud/Gypframe with Rockwool insulation between and Gyproc Wallboard, Fireline Board or Moisture Resistant Board depending on location and dryline finish.
Ground Floor: 65mm screed (incorporating underfloor heating pipes) on 125mm PIR rigid insulation on 1200-gauge DPM on reinforced concrete slab to structural engineer's design and specification.
First & Second Floor: 65mm screed (incorporating underfloor heating pipes) on 30mm PIR rigid insulation on 1000-gauge vapour control layer on reinforced concrete slabs to engineer's design and specification.
External Entrance Doors: Thermally broken Aluminium doors, double glazed (Automated were required). External Doors/Screens (Lounge/Dining Area): Thermally broken uPVC, double glazed. External Windows: Thermally broken PVC, double glazed casement windows. Internal Doors: Veneered or painted solid core timber doors, with brushed stainless-steel ironmongery and vision panels were indicated. Curtain Walling & Spandrel Panels: Thermally broken Aluminium, double glazed. Internal Screens: HW timber screens with 30/30-minute (insulation/integrity) fire resistant safety glass.
Ceilings to provide 1-hour fire resistance (Second Floor): 2 no. layers of 12.5mm Gyproc Fireline Plasterboard, on timber ceiling joists/trusses.
Suspended Ceilings (Ground, First and Second Floor): Suspended Ceiling System or Gyproc Casoline MF ceiling.
External Works
Roadway: Tarmac, pavers, concrete paving slabs, and paver, turfed lawns & facing brick/rendered walls with handrail were required.
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