Care home · Southampton
Aspen Lodge Care Home
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- 222 Weston Lane, Southampton, SO19 9HL
- Run by
- Aspen Care Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 20 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- En-suite rooms
- En-suite rooms available (as stated on aspencare.co.uk)
- Registered with CQC
- November 2010 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Chandana Meepegama Arceli Morga De Leon
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2005 (21 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 05606849)
- Last CQC check
- 28 May 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,460–£1,780 a week for residential care (dementia). An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
Licensed by CQC for: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-120765544
An overview of Aspen Lodge Care Home
Aspen Lodge Care Home in Southampton is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a residential care home, run by Aspen Care Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia, physical disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (May 2025). It is one of 19 CQC-registered care homes in and around Netley; 15 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Specialisms
Taken from its CQC registration.
Key points from CQC's visit
- At the time of inspection, the service was supporting 19 people.
- The registered provider and management team had established improvements within the service since our last inspection and the provider was no longer in breach of regulations.
- The rating has changed from requires improvement (published 24 April 2024) to good.
- Comments included: “They do everything to keep me safe, they make sure I'm okay and they check on me if I'm in my bedroom”, “The staff are very nice, always here to help”, “It's nice to be treated with respect and we are here”, “I love it here, it's my home now.”
Inspected 11 July 2018; report published 29 August 2018. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
The company behind Aspen Lodge Care Home
Aspen Lodge Care Home is run by Aspen Care Limited (company 05606849), incorporated in 2005, 5 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 3 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is residential care for older and disabled people.
Percentage scores by area
Each area below is made up of several quality statements, each scored 1 to 4 by CQC; the percentage combines those scores for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Aspen Lodge Care Home scores 75%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 75%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement3 · Good
Responsive 75%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
How to read the numbers: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. Published by CQC, assessed 4 March 2025, published 24 April 2024 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
Past CQC ratings
- Jan 2016
- Dec 2016
- Aug 2018
- Apr 2024
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 29 August 2018
- CQC inspection report 22 December 2016
- CQC inspection report 29 January 2016
- Inspection report 24 December 2013
- Inspection report 24 May 2013
- Inspection report 17 July 2012
Council food inspection
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 15 November 2025 by Southampton. Try to visit at a mealtime: it shows how food, choice and help with eating work in practice.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Aspen Care/Lodge"). Open Government Licence.
Finding it
- Ward
- Woolston
- Council
- Southampton City Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Southampton Itchen
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in SO19 (20)
Larger map · Plan a journey · OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Around the building
- Bus stop 70 m (1 min walk) · 19 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Sholing, 490 m (6 min walk)
- GP surgery The Old Fire Station Surgery, 950 m (12 min walk)
- Pharmacy Woolston Pharmacy, 970 m (12 min walk)
- Shop Dhaliwal Late Shopper, 170 m (2 min walk)
- Park 80 m (1 min walk)
- Place of worship Holy Trinity Weston, 540 m (7 min walk)
- Library Woolston Library, 1.5 km (19 min walk)
Distances are as the crow flies, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); real walking routes will be longer and may include hills or busy roads.
Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence).
How long it has been running
Registered in November 2010, it has 15 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 5 overall ratings for it (2016–2025), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
CQC lists 6 reports for this location, the latest dated 29 August 2018.
The ratings in context
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Aspen Lodge Care Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 38 of the 47 other care homes in Southampton that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe75% score39 of 48 in Southampton
- Effective75% score44 of 48 in Southampton
- Caring75% score47 of 48 in Southampton
- Responsive75% score42 of 48 in Southampton
- Well-led75% score39 of 48 in Southampton
Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 28 May 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Southampton share it.
The local picture
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 20 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Lavender House Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: mental health conditions (6 of the nearest 25); physical disabilities (8 of the nearest 25); sight or hearing loss (4 of the nearest 25).
4 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Woolston ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a shop (2 min), a park (1 min), a bus stop (1 min) and a railway station (6 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
What it may cost
We estimate Aspen Lodge Care Home at £1,460–£1,780 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £76k–£93k.
Get the extras in writing: items such as hairdressing and outings are usually charged on top.
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Aspen Lodge Care Home in local context
- Rated Good. Across Southampton, 83% of the 48 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (May 2025) is more recent than 81% of care home ratings in Southampton.
- With 20 beds it is larger than 49% of care homes in Southampton, where the typical home has 20.
- Registered with CQC in 2010: it has been registered longer than 90% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 6 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Southampton lists 3.
All figures compare it with other care homes in Southampton; CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Aspen Lodge Care Home questions answered
- How much does Aspen Lodge Care Home charge?
- We don't have published prices from Aspen Lodge Care Home yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,555 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in South East). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Is Aspen Lodge Care Home rated well for safety?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the sections most worth your time.
- How many residents can Aspen Lodge Care Home take?
- Aspen Lodge Care Home has 20 registered places. Ask how many are free now and which rooms have en-suites.
- Who runs Aspen Lodge Care Home?
- Aspen Lodge Care Home is run by Aspen Care Limited, the registered provider on the CQC register.
- Can Aspen Lodge Care Home care for someone with dementia?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- How recent is Aspen Lodge Care Home's CQC rating?
- The rating now shown was published on 28 May 2025, 1 year ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Where is Aspen Lodge Care Home?
- It is at 222 Weston Lane, Southampton, SO19 9HL.
- Is Aspen Lodge Care Home a registered provider?
- Registered, yes: location 1-120765544 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in May 2025.
- What services is Aspen Lodge Care Home registered for?
- Aspen Lodge Care Home is registered with CQC for: residential homes. Ask the provider which needs it can meet now and as needs change.
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