Care home
Alandale Residential Home
Care home in Dover, Kent
Alandale Residential Home
Care home in Dover, Kent
What do these badges mean?
- Peaceful Neighbourhood — Among the lowest for recorded anti-social behaviour and public disorder of comparable areas (Police.uk).
About
Alandale Residential Home is a purpose-built care home in Whitfield, near Dover, Kent, providing residential care for older people. The home offers long-term placements, short stays and convalescent care, and has 35 registered beds.
Alandale was rated Requires Improvement by the Care Quality Commission in 2023. The home was rated Good for being effective, caring and responsive to residents' needs, but requires improvement in the safe and well-led key questions.
Food hygiene rating
Very good
Food Standards Agency · inspected May 2025
What's nearby
- Set back from main road noise
- Fire station about 450 m away
Straight-line distances. Road and rail noise from government strategic noise mapping (modelled, not measured). Locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What’s in the area
Outdoor Spaces
- AllotmentsSparse
- Play SpaceAdequate
- Golf CourseLimited
- Public ParkLimited
- Tennis CourtLimited
- Bowling GreenSparse
- Playing FieldLimited
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsLimited
- Restaurants & CafesLimited
- Retail ShoppingLimited
- SupermarketsSparse
- TakeawaysSparse
Local crime statistics
32 recorded crimes in the local area (July 2026)
Top categories:
Source: data.police.uk · within 1 mile
Care fee trajectory
Indicative weekly fee over time, against the local authority cost-of-care rate, for pricing transparency.
What Kent council pays care homes, and whether it will help with fees
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Local health safety net
Alandale Residential Home is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, 15.3 miles away. The local GP practice is BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE, 1.9 miles away.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
Community & connection in Dover
Local clubs, charities and support groups that help older residents stay active and connected.
Age Concern Dover Limited
Provision of welfare and day centre facilities, information and advice for elderly and needy people in Dover and surrounding areas.
Age UK South Kent Coast
Age UK South Kent Coast promotes the following purposes for the benefit of the public/and or older people in and around East Kent-preventing or relieving the poverty of older people with…
Age Concern Sandwich Centre for the Retired
Provision of Transport to enable clients to visit our "pop in" centre - provision of snacks, meals, bathing,choropody and Advocacy Services
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Information last reviewed October 2026.
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