Care Home Approved

CONTROVERSIAL proposals for a 50-bed care home at the former Memory House location on Marine Parade have been granted approval, despite apprehensions regarding its construction on the Leigh Cliffs.

The revised plan for the new care facility on Marine Parade incorporates a basement, which will house the kitchen, staff room, laundry facilities, and a boiler room.

The building will feature an exterior staircase leading to the basement, adorned with wrought iron balustrades and lighting wells, to provide illumination.

The application specifies that situating rooms in the basement will free up space on the ground floor, allowing for the inclusion of amenities such as a cinema, a hairdressing salon, and a pampering room for the care home’s residents.

Despite receiving nearly 50 objections from concerned residents, citing worries about potential structural damage to neighbouring properties, ground subsidence, and land instability, the plans have been given the green light.

Leigh Town Council formally objected to the plans, stating: “The addition of the basement will be detrimental to neighbouring properties and the Belton Hills Cliffs, which is an area of ground movement.

“The excavation of tons of material will undermine this area, as well as the weight of vehicles transporting materials off the site along Marine Parade.

“The application is over development and it certainly does not respond positively to local character.”

Councillors were told that engineers had looked at whether the construction could create extra movement on the cliffs, but had “no significant concern” reported.

Councillors voted 9-to-5 to approve the amended plans.

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