A DROITWICH nursing home is set to receive a radical makeover that will include a grass roof.
St John's Nursing Home, in St Peter's Walk, is to have a new, two-storey annexe providing 26 purpose-built en-suite rooms to replace the existing shared accommodation.
But in order to satisfy planning regulations the annex will have a flat roof, which will be planted with grass and feature cedar cladding to blend in with the surrounding garden.
"The new annex will use land in the existing nursing homes' garden and be built on a slope to provide ground floor and lower ground floor accommodation," said Neville Colvin, regional director of Allenbuild West Midlands, which was awarded the £1.75m contract.
Work will start with the demolition of a late 1960s extension to the original Victorian building, which started life as St John's Brine Bath Hospital, a charitable institution for people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. The building still contains the male and female signs that segregated patients in Victorian times.
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