Wellburn Care Home is set for a major new facility — just months after it was feared the well-known service would be lost forever.

Plans to build a new 60-bedroom residential care facility at Wellburn House, in Liff Road, have been approved by Dundee City Council.

Work on the new facility will get under way in 2017, and will be built within the grounds of Wellburn House, on a 7,900 sq m area of land, just south of Liff Road and west of the current care home’s main driveway.

The plans include a chapel, a conference room, lounge areas and a sensory garden. The application was submitted by James F Stephen Architects, on behalf of the Diocese of Dunkeld.

Dunkeld Diocese owns Wellburn House, and having stepped in to save the facility from closure, now plans to renew the well-loved facility which had been run in the city by the Little Sister of the Poor for over 150 years.