The buyers of a former care home on the outskirts of Aberystwyth will “provide dementia nursing care” at the facility, the Cambrian News can reveal.

The Bodlondeb care home was sold subject to contract earlier this month and, while the buyers are not yet known, the leader of Ceredigion County Council, Ellen ap Gwynn has said the buyer “will be able to provide the dementia nursing care that we were hoping for”.

Cllr ap Gwynn wrote to the North Ceredigion Forum for Elderly Care on Friday, in an email seen by the Cambrian News, and confirmed the planned use of the building.

There was public outrage over the home’s closure in January last year, but a public campaign failed to save it.

Ceredigion council argued that it did not have the necessary funding to bring the home up to standard, and had failed to find a partner to take over the running of the facility.

It was put up for sale with a price tag of £395,000, with offers first taken from those within the council’s “preferred uses”, including an elderly mentally infirm nursing home, a nursing home with residential care for dementia, and accommodation for young people in need of social housing.

George Holloway, of the The North Ceredigion Forum for Elderly Care, said: “This is encouraging news and it is to be hoped that the new facility will go someway to reducing the immense stress and upset caused by loved ones having to leave the county to receive appropriate care.”

Cllr ap Gwynn said that the council “will be in a position to make a formal announcement as soon as contractual details are confirmed”.

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