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The local planning authority has rejected the application for the 99 bedroom care home. We are currently monitoring the site to ensure no further appeals are filed.

October 22, 2012

Oppose Large Scale Care Home Development in Spratton

Oppose Large Scale Care Home Development in Spratton

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 1 month ago

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY ANY MONEY. The request for donations is so the site can be run freely, you do not have to pay.


A planning application has been made to turn the former 15 bedroom country house Broomhill Hotel into a 99 bedroom care home for the elderly and mentally ill. 84 bedrooms will be added over three stories if this massive new development goes ahead. This will affect the look of the Broomhill from the surrounding areas of currently pretty countryside, and it also will have a dramatic impact on rural daily lives of local people as traffic will significantly increase on the quiet country lane serving Broomhill and the dangerous junction at the A5199. The local country environment will be significantly degraded by the increase in noise and light pollution.


We would like to clarify it's not the fact that it's going to be a care home (for both the elderly and the mentally ill) that we're objecting to but the scale of it. It would be a really lovely site for a small scale personal care home, but a massive industrial one is no good for the surrounding countryside or the patients - the objection is to the scale and unsympathetic nature of the development but not to the change of use.


Please help oppose the development by lodging a complaint to [email protected]  with reference 

DA/2012/0953 no later than 24th January 2013 as time is already running out! 


Full plans can be seen by going to http://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/living/planning-and-building-control/search-comment-planning/ - click on planning application search and and enter the ref number DA/2012/0953 in the planning search box.


https://www.facebook.com/OpposeLargeScaleCareHomeDevelopmentInSpratton for update to info, and pictures on the proposals.


Please show your opposition to the development by signing below, and forward to those who may be interested.

Updates

August 20, 2012

I have submitted a formal objection letter to the planning department detailing the traffic concerns at the A5199 junction. We are currently waiting for a response from the developer regarding the scale of the proposed extension.

Reached 100 supporters

August 20, 2012

6 Comments

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Claire Webb
14 years ago Featured

Broomhill is a historic site and this ugly huge building will wreck the view for everyone. keep it rural!

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Mark Gibson
14 years ago Featured

99 bedrooms is way too big for a plot this size. It will completely ruin the village charm and that junction is already a death trap.

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Dave Espinoza
14 years ago Featured

Absolute madness. Who ever planned this has obviously never driven down that narrow lane.

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Sarah Dixon
14 years ago Featured

The roads round here just cant take that kind of traffic. Its a tiny lane and it will be absolute chaos with all those delivery vans and staff cars.

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Jo Farah
14 years ago Featured

Save our greenery. We dont need a massive concrete block in the middle of our countryside.

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Paul Snyder
14 years ago Featured

Theyll destroy the character of the place. Enough is enough.