Leeds-based consulting engineering specialists Dudley’s is to provide structural and civil engineering support for a new retirement living development in Shipley for Torsion Care.
The scheme will provide 56 retirement living apartments close to the UNESCO world heritage site of Saltaire. Torsion will develop the scheme under its Burghley Retirement Living Brand.
The contract follows the successful completion of a three-storey, 66-bed care home facility for Torsion on the same site on Salts Mill Road, next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Dudleys has delivered engineering services to assist Torsion in securing consents to develop the former industrial site. These included advice on modelling, drainage, a new highway entrance and investigations to the old canal culvert.
Torsion Care is a privately owned independent company focused on developing, care & retirement living apartments.
Established in 2019, Torsion Care a has delivery pipeline of over 2500 care bedrooms and 720 retirement apartments over the next five years. Its growth strategy focusses on acquiring defunct sites suitable for care homes or retirement living schemes for the benefit of local communities.”
Dudleys is also retained by Torsion to advise on new care home and retirement living developments in Brighouse, Sleaford, Lincoln and York.
Paul Brownlow, Director at Dudley’s, said: “We are well versed in working with challenging brownfield sites that need varying remediation from historic use or local environmental impact, and admire Torsion’s commitment to rejuvenate difficult plots for community benefit.”
