Care home · Bournemouth
Southbourne Beach Care Home
Illustrative photo, not of Southbourne Beach Care Home- Address
- 42 Belle Vue Road, Bournemouth, BH6 3DS
- Run by
- Willow Tower Opco 1 Limited (16 services)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 104 (registered with CQC)
- Registered with CQC
- August 2017 (9 years)
- Part of
- Welltower
- Registered manager
- Morgyn James Ross
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2005 (21 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 05401819)
- Last CQC check
- 28 May 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,370–£1,680 a week for residential care (dementia). Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Licensed by CQC for: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-3875048085
Southbourne Beach Care Home at a glance
Registered with CQC as a residential care home, Southbourne Beach Care Home is based in Bournemouth, run by Willow Tower Opco 1 Limited. It supports older people, with registered specialisms in dementia.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (May 2025). It is one of 25 CQC-registered care homes in and around Christchurch; 20 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Southbourne Beach Care Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 116 of the 128 other care homes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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.
The five key questions
- Safe75% score123 of 129 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Effective75% score119 of 129 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Caring75% score121 of 129 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Responsive75% score117 of 129 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Well-led75% score117 of 129 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
CQC key question ratings, published 28 May 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole share it.
The inspection, summarised
- Southbourne Beach Care Home is registered to provide care and support for up to 104 people.
- The service provides residential care for older people, some of whom are living with dementia.
- The inspection took place on the 9 and 11 May 2025.
- People told us they were safe and enjoyed their lives, their relatives agreed, they had peace of mind with their loved ones living at Southbourne Beach Care Home.
Inspected 25 January 2023; report published 15 February 2023; supporting 86 people at the time. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
The local picture
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 23 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Southbourne Beach Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
7 of the 24 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in East Southbourne & Tuckton ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Dorset ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (3 min), a shop (4 min), a park (3 min), a café (4 min) and a bus stop (1 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Detailed scores
Behind each rating sit scores of 1 to 4 for individual quality statements, which CQC turns into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Southbourne Beach 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 15 April 2025, published 28 May 2025 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
Earlier inspections
- Sep 2018
- Aug 2019
- Feb 2021
- Feb 2023
- May 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
The location's rating record from CQC, from first to latest.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 15 February 2023
- CQC inspection report 4 February 2021
- CQC inspection report 6 August 2019
- CQC inspection report 11 September 2018
Council food inspection
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 13 July 2026 by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. 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 "Southbourne Beach Care Home"). Open Government Licence.
Area and map
- Ward
- East Southbourne & Tuckton
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bournemouth East
- NHS planning area
- NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in BH6 (20)
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Nearby
- Bus stop 50 m (1 min walk) · 18 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Pokesdown, 2.0 km
- GP surgery Marine Surgery, 220 m (3 min walk)
- Pharmacy Tuckton Pharmacy, 920 m (11 min walk)
- Shop Bellevue Stores, 290 m (4 min walk)
- Park Seafield Gardens, 270 m (3 min walk)
- Café Brown Dog, 290 m (4 min walk)
- Place of worship Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole, 390 m (5 min walk)
- Library Tuckton Library, 1.2 km (16 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.
Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence.
Who runs it
Southbourne Beach Care Home is run by Willow Tower Opco 1 Limited (company 05401819), incorporated in 2005, 12 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 2 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
Willow Tower Opco 1 Limited runs 16 CQC-registered services across 10 council areas; 15 of the 16 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (94%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
2 of its services are in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
It trades under the Welltower brand, which covers 623 services run by 76 registered providers.
What it may cost
We estimate Southbourne Beach Care Home at £1,370–£1,680 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £71k–£87k.
Ask what notice is given before a fee increase and what triggers one.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council for a free care needs assessment.
Needs it is registered to meet
Registration details from CQC.
How long it has been running
Southbourne Beach Care Home has been registered with CQC since August 2017, about 9 years.
CQC has published 5 overall ratings for it (2018–2025), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
CQC lists 4 reports for this location, the latest dated 15 February 2023.
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How Southbourne Beach Care Home compares
- Rated Good. Across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 96% of the 129 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 8 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (May 2025) is more recent than 67% of care home ratings in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
- With 104 beds it is larger than 97% of care homes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the typical home has 25.
- Registered with CQC in 2017: it has been registered longer than 33% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 2 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole lists 3.
All figures compare it with other care homes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole; CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Quick answers about Southbourne Beach Care Home
- Where is Southbourne Beach Care Home based?
- It is at 42 Belle Vue Road, Bournemouth, BH6 3DS.
- Is Southbourne Beach Care Home registered with CQC?
- Yes. Southbourne Beach Care Home is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a care home (location ID 1-3875048085) and was rated Good overall in May 2025.
- What kind of care can Southbourne Beach Care Home offer?
- Southbourne Beach Care Home is registered with CQC for: residential homes. Ask the provider which needs it can meet now and as needs change.
- Can Southbourne Beach Care Home care for someone with dementia?
- Yes. Dementia is one of the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask how many carers or staff have dementia training.
- When was Southbourne Beach Care Home last inspected?
- 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.
- How many residents can Southbourne Beach Care Home take?
- Southbourne Beach Care Home is registered for up to 104 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
- Which provider runs Southbourne Beach Care Home?
- CQC lists Willow Tower Opco 1 Limited as the provider responsible for Southbourne Beach Care Home.
- What are Southbourne Beach Care Home's fees?
- Southbourne Beach Care Home has not published its fees with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,349 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in South West). Request a written quote and check what is charged on top.
- Is Southbourne Beach 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 two to read first in the report.
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