Proposed Havelock long-term care facility needs new developer
Global News
The province has scrapped its development agreement with AON Inc. of Peterborough to build a 128-bed long-term care facility in Havelock.
It has been in the works for more than a decade, but now plans to build a 128-bed long-term care home in Havelock have been delayed as the township works to find a new developer for the project.
On Tuesday, Peterborough—Kawartha MPP Dave Smith told Havelock-Belmont-Methuen Township council that the province had cancelled its development agreement with AON Inc. for the facility on Old Norwood Road.
“The long and short of it is AON was to have it completed and have people moving in by Sept. 1 of this year and there is no reasonable prospect of that actually happening now,” Smith told Global News Peterborough.
“We just couldn’t continue on with AON as the developer.”
Smith said the agreement with AON included a provision that the developer had to start construction of the facility by March last year.
The property itself is fully serviced and ready to go for construction, but development of the facility hasn’t started.
Smith proposed council be provisionally awarded the beds so that it could then enter a request for proposal process to find a new developer for the project.
“What my belief is with the amount of work Havelock has done on this, they deserve to have a long-term care facility there. The people who live in the area need a long-term care facility,” Smith said.
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