Controversial plans to build 12 homes on the site of an NHS care home at Berrow have this week been given the go-ahead by planners.
Despite the news, health bosses told Burnham-On-Sea.com in November that the immediate future of the centre is not threatened.
The NHS was originally granted permission to build on the site of the Little Court Nursing Home at Pinnockscroft two years ago but because that agreement is due to expire in February, it was seeking to renew the application.
On Tuesday (December 19th), Sedgemoor’s Development Control Committee gave the request for outline planning permission the green light.
Some 28 elderly dementia patients were in fact transferred from the site to Bridgwater and Taunton two years ago – but since then, the building has been used as a day centre for needy patients.
Inventures, a consultancy acting on behalf of Somerset Partnership NHS, has now been drafted in to get the planning permission renewed.
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