Provision of adult social care and housing services in the Brampton area will be discussed at a meeting in Carlisle next week.
Members of Cumberland Council’s Border, Fellside and north Carlisle community panels are due to meet and will hear a presentation.
It follows the move by Cumberland Council to close the town’s Moot Lodge Care Home in July 2024.
The property was subsequently declared surplus in July last year because the building was considered not fit for purpose and it would cost too much to make the required changes to the building.
At a meeting in December last year the committee received a question about to the former care home in Brampton and steps taken by the council to address the lack of elderly care accommodation in the Brampton area.
A council report said: “The community panel requested an update report on such assurances. This update provides the community panel with an overview of the provision of care services through the council’s market position statement and commissioning strategy, with an overview of the care provision in Brampton and its alignment with these.”
According to the report the council committed to undertake a review of elderly care provision in the council area and committed to ensuring the security and upkeep of the Moot Lodge site.
However, the report added: “The resident expressed concerns that the commitments to maintain the site had not been upheld, with growing issues of litter and anti-social behaviour this matter is dealt with by the council’s estates team and not covered in this report.”
Brampton currently has two care homes which provide 50 beds across residential and dementia services which equates to 37.1 beds per 1,000 population, slightly higher than the Cumberland Council area average of 34.4 beds.
The report added: “While Brampton does not currently have any nursing bed provision, this position is not unexpected.
“More specialised services, including dementia nursing and general nursing care, are typically concentrated within the larger key service centre areas, such as Carlisle, Workington and Whitehaven, where providers are better able to recruit and retain the specialist workforce required.
“This is both a national and regional issue not specific to Brampton.
“Brampton is also well serviced by an extra care housing service, Bramble Court, which provides 38 units, which is the second highest number of ECH units per 1,000 population in the Cumberland footprint.
“Brampton also has access to supported living services and day opportunities, at a slightly lower level than the Cumberland average.
In October 2025, Cumberland Council recommissioned the carer support contract and initial monitoring indicated that the Brampton area was actively using the service with 64 referrals in November 2025 and 59 in December 2025.
