Australia’s largest aged care operator, Opal HealthCare, has lodged plans with Brisbane City Council for a five-storey care community overlooking Doomben racecourse at Ascot, 7 km from the Brisbane CBD, as part of its partnership with retirement village operator Lendlease.
The care community will form part of the $1.5 billion redevelopment of Brisbane Racing Club’s 2.3 hectare site fronting the racecourse. The Eagle Farm and Doomben site is being planned as an intergenerational precinct.
The Ascot Grove Care Community will have 154 beds and will occupy a 4,600sqm site at 52 Hampden Street, adjacent to Lendlease’s Bernborough Ascot Retirement Village.
The building will be split into two wings and wrapped around internal courtyards.
“The underlaying intention of the masterplan design is to create a series of private inner garden sanctuaries for residents and visitors which are visually connected to the open spaces of the existing racetrack,” says a statement on the website of Marchese Partners, who are the project’s architects.
