DETAILED plans for a fifth care home in Cumnor offering nursing and dementia care have been tabled.

Drawings for the 70-bed facility went on public display in the spring but final designs have now been submitted to Vale of White Horse District Council.

The home is set to create 70 jobs for people in the local area and will contain a coffee shop, cinema and hair salon.

Cumnor parish is already home to the 55-bed Oaken Holt care home, Eynsham Road, 25-bed Oxenford House, The Glebe and the seven-bed Shrublands, Faringdon Road.

A 72-bed luxury care home is also under construction in Cumnor Hill.

London developer Frontier bought 1.2 acres of land next to Timbet business park to build a 70-bed home.

Cumnor councillor Dudley Hoddinott said he had heard some concerns but was in favour of the plans.

He said: “The people living opposite are not happy with its size and the amount of traffic generated.

“It is quite a big building and close to the road so there will of course be some impact but half the site is a business park anyway.

“It will be a 24-hour operation with people coming and going so I think on balance there will be less traffic than if it was just offices.”

The Cumnor Hill resident said the developer’s designs for Chawley Park, which include a coffee shop on the ground floor, were user-friendly for other residents.

Mr Hoddinott said: “They have tried to make it a welcoming place.

“When I went to the consultation they said there would be a coffee shop for people to meet with friends of relations.

“It doesn’t seem like a hospital, more like a Costa Coffee.”

In the design and access statement accompanying the plans, Frontier said the facility would create 70 jobs with most coming from the immediate area.

It also said a 24-hour care provision would give employees flexible working hours.

The company argued that according to Office for National Statistics data, 26 per cent of the Vale’s population will be 65 or over by 2030.

It said: “ The development of this new care facility will contribute significantly to help meet the anticipated increase in need for care facilities.”

The deadline for comments is September 3, visit whitehorsedc.gov.uk and search for P15/V1671/FUL. A decision is expected by late October.