Ambitious plans to build a new £2.5million medical centre at Berrow have been withdrawn this week by the developers behind the scheme.
It comes after district council planners raised concerns about the “intrusive design” of the proposed building, pictured right, which was earmarked for Brent Road.
A Sedgemoor District Council planning spokesman told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “This substantial proposal includes a new medical centre and associated accommodation involving the relocation of facilities from their long-standing urban sites to a greenfield site away from their resident population and for which no special justification has been put forward.”
“The erection of these large buildings of an intrusive design which is unsympathetic to the local vernacular and external materials, on an exposed site largely devoid of screening, would be out of character and at odds with the simple, small scale residential homes.”
The council also had concerns about the proposed location of the property, on previously undeveloped land in an area deemed to be at risk from flooding.
In January, dozens of residents attended a meeting in Berrow Village Hall to hear more about the proposed Berrow Health Campus where the plans got a mixed reaction.
Burnham-On-Sea.com was first to unveil the proposals last summer when it was announced there are three elements to the scheme – an additional medical centre and pharmacy, a new elderly psychiatric day hospital to replace Berrow’s Little Court; and a brand new NHS dentist.
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