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MEMBERS of the Carlisle fire stations brought some festive cheer to some of the city s older residents - inviting one Carlisle care home to their… ....
READER S LETTER: Langrigg House, in Morton, Carlisle, shows there has always been demand for care homes The former Langrigg House care home, in Langrigg Road, Morton, Carlisle. Picture: Google StreeetView I WAS interested to read in this paper that a private care home is to be built on the site of the County Council’s former care home Langrigg House, in Morton, Carlisle. In 2016, Carlisle Socialist Party organised a public campaign against the council’s plan to close three of its homes in Carlisle and four in West Cumbria, and eventually replace them with two new ones, but with only 120 places instead of 257, claiming this was because there was little demand for care home places as people preferred to remain in their own homes and receive “care in the community”. ....