An aerial photo shows the development of a new care home as building work gets underway.

This bird’s eye view depicts the starting blocks of the new Moorhill Care Home in West End.

Photographed by Matt Adamiak, construction is progressing on the site which borders Telegraph Woods.

Planning for the scheme was given the green light in August of last year.

Developers Highwood Group described it as a 'state-of-the-art’ care home set within ‘beautiful, landscaped grounds’ in Moorhill Road.

The 70-bed care home aims to ease the ‘growing shortage’ of care home beds in the area and will provide ‘high-end’ living accommodation.

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It will also feature communal spaces with nurse and medical stations, health and beauty rooms, dining rooms and a café.

Martin Hawthorne, planning director for Highwood, said: “Meeting identified needs of the one in four people who will be 65 or over in 2050 is critical to the region’s delivery of specialist, accessible housing.

“Utilising a brownfield site to achieve that is hugely rewarding.”