Care home can be built in Sheffield after councillors narrowly approve plans despite almost 200 objections

Councillors have narrowly approved controversial plans for a new care home which had prompted almost 200 objections.
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The planning board voted seven to five in favour of the 80 bed home between 216b and 288 Twentywell Lane at Bradway.

The four storey building will include individual en-suite bedrooms, communal lounge and dining room, kitchen areas, staff spaces, a residents’ cafe and cinema plus 34 parking spaces.

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An artist impression of the new care homeAn artist impression of the new care home
An artist impression of the new care home

Sarah Featherstone, who lives in one of the 19 houses that immediately join the site, said: “We have access to 3D modelling software and computers, time to read reports and research, the confidence to motivate neighbours, to organise a public meeting, and to present to you and yet we still feel marginalised and steamrollered.

“We are appalled at judgments dismissing the impact this will have on residents as negligible. As councillors you represent all of Sheffield and we need to know that you hear us.

“This development will be huge, a secondary school or office block or hospital unit. We appeal to you to recognise that this development is unnecessary, inappropriate, and potentially damaging to the health and wellbeing of over 70 people who share a boundary with the site and the wider community.”

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Jim Lomas, on behalf of developers, said it was a “perfectly acceptable and complimentary development.”

“This scheme will bring in 130 jobs during the construction process over a two year period, and 33 jobs when operational,” he said.

“The delivery of care homes will go a long way to increasing housing stock within the city and reducing the pressure to build housing on open spaces, recreational land and the green belt."

Councillors were divided. Coun Andrew Sangar said it is the ‘wrong building in the wrong location.’

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Coun Peter Price said: “There is a demand for care homes and 80 beds sounds large but it’s a very big site and the land has been identified for housing.”

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