LNT leads the renewable drive with opening of green care home

Newfield Lodge, which is part of the group’s Ideal Care Home business, has been built on the site of a former local authority home. It will soon become home to 64 elderly people.

It has been built by LNT Construction, the development arm of the LNT Group, which has its head office in Leeds.

It features ground source heat pumps, solar thermal panels and an air source heat extraction system. The move is part of LNT’s commitment to reduce its carbon footprint.

Christine Cooper the managing director of LNT Construction, said: “The Government’s targets are for 10 per cent of the energy provision to be from renewable sources, increasing to 20 per cent by 2020, we are already at the 2020 target. We are always reviewing ideas and new technologies to ensure that we deliver the most efficient and cost effective build to our customers.”

When it opens later this week, the home will be staffed by a team of 20 full and part-time people, which is enough to man one floor of the two level home, but that will double as occupancy increases.

The LNT Group, which was founded by Lawrence Tomlinson, employs more than 2,000 people across its five core businesses. Mr Tomlinson was ranked as the 151st richest person in the UK in the annual Sunday Times Rich List in May 2011, with an estimated wealth of £500m. He grew up in Batley, West Yorkshire, where he attended the local grammar school. He went on to become one of Yorkshire’s best known entrepreneurs after study engineering at Huddersfield College.