'Undesirable encroachment onto rural land' - Plans for new 74-bed care home next to Newport pub refused
Plans to build a new 74-bed care home off the A41 in Newport have been refused by Telford & Wrekin Council.
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Bromsgrove-based Barcroft Estates applied for planning permission to build the new facility back in October.
The company hoped to build a care home on a 0.77-hectare site next to the Premier Inn hotel and The Three Fishes pub off the A41 Newport Bypass.
The application stated the home would provide specialist care for the elderly, to meet the "continued demand" for the accommodation of "vulnerable older people requiring nursing and dementia care".
In principle, the proposal had attracted the support of Newport Town Council - subject to meeting a number of conditions.
