CONSTRUCTION work is about to start on a £6.1m project to create dedicated new homes for older people in York.
Regency Mews in St Helen's Road, Dringhouses, has been designed for people living with dementia and for those who need assisted living services, and will start to take shape from this month.
The scheme will see a further 17 extra care and eight dementia care studio flats, all en-suite, created within a 2,500m2 new-build annex.
The new homes will be next to the grounds of The Abbeyfield York Society's existing and fully-occupied extra care and sheltered housing scheme, Abbeyfield House, in Regency Mews.