A £10 MILLION care home in Wincanton has closed – less than a year after it was built and having welcomed just four residents.

As work progressed on 74-bed Cale View, in Dyke’s Way, parent company Cornerstone Healthcare lauded a “state-of-the-art nursing home” for the area.

However, despite construction finishing in November last year, only four residents ever moved in to the complex, and have now been re-housed.

Your New Blackmore Vale understands staff have been made redundant and the site lies empty, and is up for sale on the open market.

A Cornerstone Healthcare spokesperson confirmed the home was no longer open to residents – and also quashed rumours it could be used to house asylum seekers or homeless people.

£10 million Cale View was lauded as a ‘state-of-the-art’ care home for Wincanton. Picture: Cornerstone Healthcare

“Cale View is a privately owned by Cornerstone Healthcare Group and is now closed to residents. There were four residents in total, all of whom have already been re-homed.

“No local authority funded residents resided there. Some administrative staff remain in the building.

“Cale View is for sale on the open market as a going concern (as a registered care service) and the council has no plans to buy it, nor for it to house asylum seekers.

“Any alternative uses for the building would be a matter for the current owners and the people to whom the property is being marketed.”

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The site of Cale View has had a troubled life, with work on the care home build initially stopping after the collapse of construction firm, Midas, in 2022.

A new contractor was appointed and the home opened in March, following a glossy update on progress on the building.

Now, just six months later, it lies empty.