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.