New care home all set for go-ahead
Friday, 28th June 2013.
St Edmundsbury Borough Council planners are being recommended next week to grant planning permission for a new 60-bed care home on the site of Chalkstone Middle School.
The application comes from Care UK, who have taken on the operation of Suffolk’s care homes from the county council.
The new home would replace Place Court in 2014.
But the proposals have brought objections from Haverhill Town Council, from borough councillor Gordon Cox and from a neighbouring resident.
The town council objects because it says the site does not provide for staff and visitors.
There would also be a wellbeing centre on the site, in the shape of an octagon.
The main care home, which would be a C-shaped structure would be faced with brick and weatherboarding. A report to the council’s development control committee meeting on Thursday says it will be set well below the road level so will sit neatly in the street environment.
An accompanying transport statement says it will not have an adverse impact on the residential roads nearby.
Cllr Cox has objected that the nearby Vixen pub being changed into an undertakers will make this an inappropriate place for a care home.
The application comes from Care UK, who have taken on the operation of Suffolk’s care homes from the county council.
The new home would replace Place Court in 2014.
But the proposals have brought objections from Haverhill Town Council, from borough councillor Gordon Cox and from a neighbouring resident.
The town council objects because it says the site does not provide for staff and visitors.
There would also be a wellbeing centre on the site, in the shape of an octagon.
The main care home, which would be a C-shaped structure would be faced with brick and weatherboarding. A report to the council’s development control committee meeting on Thursday says it will be set well below the road level so will sit neatly in the street environment.
An accompanying transport statement says it will not have an adverse impact on the residential roads nearby.
Cllr Cox has objected that the nearby Vixen pub being changed into an undertakers will make this an inappropriate place for a care home.
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