OPERATORS of a Warrington care home are to be given a second chance to submit controversial plans to add a 30-bed dementia care unit to the property – on Green Belt land.
Nearly 100 objections have been received to the proposal put forward by Abbotsfield Care Ltd who run the 60-bed Three Elms care home in Station Road, Penketh.
There is also opposition from local borough councillors, Penketh Parish Council and Warrington South MP David Mowat.
But more than 200 people have made representations supporting the scheme, or raising no objections.
Members of the borough council’s development management committee have already visited the site but decided to defer a decision to allow the applicants to re-submit amended plans including measures to address parking concerns.
Planning officers are recommending the scheme be thrown out.
The development would be an L-shaped, two-storey hipped roof block to the west of the existing care home immediately south of the junction of Station Road and Tannery Lane.
Penketh Parish Council has objected on the grounds of highways safety, Green Belt, ecology, overdevelopment of the site and lack of adequate open space
Similar objections come from local councillors Linda Dirir and David Keane while the MP expresses concern about inappropriate development in the Green Belt.
Supporters of the scheme – who include staff, residents and relatives of residents of Three Elms – claim the existing home requires the extension to be able to continue to offer the care it provides.
They say it would enable continuity of care for existing residents when extra care was needed.
The development would offer 30 long term jobs and the design and landscaping would be sympathetic to the existing building.
OPERATORS of a Warrington care home are to be given a second chance to
submit controversial plans to add a 30-bed dementia care unit to the
property - on Green Belt land.
Care home firm given a second chance
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