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The Lodge, Maldon — care home record & Homesplace Grade · Homesplace

Care homes/Essexlocal authority/Maldontown · city/The Lodge

The Lodge

Residential homes · 25 beds · Dykes Chase, Maldon CM9 6HW

✓ Verified record · data of 14 June 2026Unclaimed · auto generated from official sources

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Homesplace Grade · stable

Analysed record · answered from official sources

Is The Lodge any good?

On the evidence, The Lodge has a record with one watch point. It was rated Good at its latest inspection (16 Apr 2026). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 16 Apr 2026CQC register · manager history

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Safe is rated Requires improvement at the current inspection.

Safe is one of the two most heavily weighted key questions in the Homesplace Grade. Rated at the inspection published 16 April 2026.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 16 Apr 2026

Goodoverall

Safe: ● Requires improvement
Effective: ● Good
Caring: ● Good
Responsive: ● Good
Well led: ● Good

Rating trajectory

all inspections on record

Rated Good at every inspection on record.

Good

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Apr 2026

Leadership stability

No manager changes in five years. Stable leadership supports quality, which is why we track it.

C. Hatcher · current registered manager
since May 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Enforcement and breaches

✓No enforcement action on record

Checked against the CQC enforcement register · 14 June 2026

Capacity and specialisms

25 beds
Residential homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Caring for adults under 65 yrs
Dementia

CQC register · 14 June 2026

Financial stability

operating company

Active· accounts up to date

Company: SDM CARE HOMES LTD · 15398881
Incorporated: 9 January 2024
Last accounts: made up to 31 January 2025 · total-exemption-full
Next accounts due: Oct 2026
Charges (secured debt): none registered

No financial-distress signals on the register: the operating company is active, with accounts and confirmation statement filed on time and no insolvency history.

Companies House · 14 June 2026shown for context · not part of the Homesplace Grade