Details revealed about Sheffield care home that has sparked nearly 200 complaints

Charterpoint Senior Living and Cinnamon Luxury Care are building the four-storey, 80-bed home off Twentywell Lane in Bradway.

They were granted planning permission last November despite almost 200 objections from local residents.

The impact on local ecology was one of the main concerns and in February, Sheffield Council had to intervene and stop contractors from working on the site after residents raised frantic complaints about trees being felled.

Cinnamon says the home will feature individual bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, private dining, a cafe, hair and beauty salon and a cinema. Outside there will be terraces and a dementia garden.

Ben Collard, of Cinnamon, said: “We are delighted to have received planning consent. Cinnamon are very much looking forward to building a first-class care home, in a stunning setting, that we are sure will become an integral part of the community for many years to come.”

Councillors voted seven to five in favour of the development and Giles Nursey, director at Charterpoint, said he was pleased the committee had supported the officers’ recommendation to approve the scheme

“We identified this site as a location with significant under provision of care home accommodation.

“We worked in partnership with Cinnamon throughout the planning process to design a bespoke care home, which will offer the very best facilities to residents in the Bradway and south Sheffield areas.”

Residents had objected strongly to the development when it came before the planning committee.

Sarah Featherstone, who lives in one of the 19 houses that immediately join the site, said at the time: “We feel marginalised and steamrollered. We are appalled at judgments dismissing the impact this will have on residents as negligible.

“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.”