More than 30 residents of a former county council old people's home are to be temporarily rehoused five miles away while a £3.9m home is built for them.

Residents are being transferred on July 7 and 8 from Ladygrove House, Didcot, to Blue Mountains old people's home, in Wallingford.

They will stay there for the next 16 months.

Former residents of Blue Mountains have moved to the new £3m, 60-bed Westgate House, in St George's Road, Wallingford.

When 19 former county council residential homes for the elderly were transferred to a non-profit charitable trust more than two years ago, part of the contract was to replace 10 of the homes which were substandard.

Ladygrove House, in Britwell Road, Didcot, is the only centre which is being rebuilt on the same site.

Oxfordshire Care Partnership, a charitable trust which has taken over responsibility for the county council homes, said it had been unable to find an alternative location.