A golf club in Stanford Le Hope could be transformed in a major new community development with apartments for the over-55s, which offers 24-hour support using artificial intelligence.

Plans for the redevelopment of the Langdon Hills Golf and Country Club, on Lower Dunton Road, have been submitted to Thurrock Council and outline the major transformation centred around care for the retirement community, while also offering a major new health spa and golfing academy.

The new “care village” will provide a range of services for people over the age of 55 including a 64-bed residential care home with dementia facilities, 84 supported living bungalows and 42 independent living apartments.

The properties will all use “specialist artificial intelligence” to offer care and support.

Planning documents note: “Technology will be a core component of all homes on site and will benefit from Specialist Artificial Intelligence that underpins ‘homes for life’.

“This technology provides a discreet vale of reassurance to all residents, so that behind the tranquil setting provided by the village there is an invisible reassurance of assistive care and support technology 24 hours a day and 364 days a year.

“All apartments will be fitted to incorporate the system that can if so desired, provide real time care 24 hours a day with monitoring and visual communications.

“This will provide the capability to make video calls; daily routine reminders – for example, linked to medications - and help with other routine tasks.

“The system can monitor diagnosed health issues and stay in direct contact with health professionals, monitor potential deterioration in wellbeing through intelligent activity analysis and ensure confidence at home by providing 24-hour emergency call and fall alerts.”

Within the care home, residents will have their own room with en-suite bathroom and they will have access to communal lounges and a dining room.

The club currently provides a 27-hole golf course and offers facilities for functions such as weddings. Rishco Leisure, which owns the site, has explained in the plans that golf clubs have experienced falling membership numbers as a result of growing time pressures and competing sports facilities.

To address the decline, Rishco wants to demolish the existing course and rebuild it into a “state-of-the-art golf facility” offering a golfing academy for new learners, leisure facilities such as a health spa, swimming pool and gym, and a restaurant.

They say the plans will mean a “comprehensive redevelopment” of the site and create specialist care facilities that will “promote good design in new housing to create high quality living environments and provide an attractive and safe place to live, in which people will choose to live”.

The plans will be considered by the council before a decision is made on whether to grant planning permission.