Hartford Care acquires newly built care home in Eastleigh, Hampshire

Hartford Care has acquired a state-of-the-art residential care home in Eastleigh, Hampshire and will partner with Highwood Group to develop the site. Construction on the new 70-bedroom care home, on Chickenhall Lane, will commence in the Autumn, subject to planning and the home will be scheduled to open in Summer 2027.

The new home will offer dementia care, residential care, nursing care, respite breaks and end-of-life care and will be positioned alongside landscaped green spaces. It will be built with industry-leading sustainability credentials and will be rated BREEAM Excellent, with significant renewable energy elements including solar panels, heat pumps and smart energy systems.

Highwood, an expert in delivering innovative and sustainable care homes, will be developing the home, in a continuing partnership between the two companies which already has two new schemes currently under construction in Alton and Southampton, both due to open to residents in May this year, and the acquisition of a care home in Fordingbridge, New Forest with construction due to begin this Summer.

Kevin Shaw, Chief Executive of Hartford Care, comments:

“Fundamental to our growth strategy is the high quality of care we offer and the ways in which we enhance the lives of our residents. Our ongoing partnership with Highwood strongly supports this commitment through the delivery of exceptional, future-proof buildings and facilities. The new home in Eastleigh enables us to extend our expert specialist care and ‘home from home’ environment to even more people.”

Phil Prosser, Managing Director of Highwood Homes, says:

“We’re delighted to add another home to the Hartford Care and Highwood partnership, which spans over a decade. The delivery of a new care home in Eastleigh will build on the recent successes at Alton Place and Moorhill, both now close to build completion, and the recent acquisition of a care home in Fordingbridge. These new homes form a growing portfolio of best-in-class facilities for Hartford Care, with several more already in the pipeline.”

The acquisition in Eastleigh will mean that Hartford Care is the owner and operator of a total of 23 homes across Southern England and the Isle of Wight, with 1,200 beds for residents. In 2024, Hartford Care completed a management buyout with UK-based investment firm Deer Capital, taking full ownership of the award-winning care home provider; more site acquisitions are planned for 2025 as part of the ongoing growth strategy.

Hartford Care’s ethos is ‘Creating Caring Communities’; its philosophy of care is underpinned by creating communities that are friendly, kind and welcoming of everyone, caring for each other and celebrating individuality by recognising that everyone needs something different to thrive.

Hartford Care’s Central Support Team is based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Established in 2003, its current care homes are in Bristol, Berkshire (Burnham and Maidenhead), Devon (Sidmouth), Dorset (Poole), Hampshire (Aldershot, Barton-on-Sea, Four Marks, Hythe, Portsmouth, Winchester and Woodlands), Isle of Wight (Bembridge, Ryde and Shanklin), Oxfordshire (Witney) and Wiltshire (Downton and Swindon).