A pub and hotel in Burry Port is to become a residential care home for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues. Caulfield’s Hotel has been bought by care company Gelli Aur Care Ltd, which runs a residential home north of St Clears.
Gelli Aur Care has now been granted planning permission by Carmarthenshire Council to convert Caulfield’s Hotel, Station Road, into a second care home. Managing director Hefyn Davies said it will cater for nine residents – mainly from Carmarthenshire – and that there’ll also be accommodation for staff. He anticipated that 30 or more jobs would be created.
Mr Davies said he was pleased to receive planning consent and that work to reconfigure the interior would take around a month. Gelli Aur Care will also apply to Care Inspectorate Wales to register the new home. Mr Davies said he believed the new development would be good for the Burry Port area. “It will bring a lot of jobs and benefit the community,” he said.
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A planning statement submitted as part of the planning application said the hotel’s kitchen and dining facilities would be upgraded and the beer cellar converted to a medicine store. The ground floor would become a dining, lounge and recreation area.
The statement added that the care home would operate a gated security system with additional fencing on the existing boundary walls. Upgraded security surveillance systems and fire alarms would also be installed, with staff onsite monitoring the premises 24 hours a day. A noise management plan, covering things like deliveries and visiting hours, has been drawn up by Gelli Aur Care Ltd and is to be reviewed regularly.