Plans for a new 80-bedroom care home on the edge of Hereford have been put forward.

Müller Property Group is seeking outline permission (application number 240662) to develop the two-acre site, currently a lorry park, off Tillington Road on the west side of the city.

Accessed by the existing road access opposite the Three Elms pub, the care home would feature a cinema, library, hair salon and secure garden to the rear according to the application.

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Provisionally named Tillington Manor, the home would employ 78 full-time staff when complete.

There would be 35 parking spaces, including nine for visitors, and one ambulance bay.

If approved, details of the scheme’s appearance, layout and landscaping would be set out in a future planning application.

An earlier version of the scheme included a three-storey block of 21 two-bedroom flats alongside the care home, but this now appears to have been dropped after consultation with county planners.

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The site is right beside the huge 92-hectare Three Elms plot which is allocated for over 1,000 new homes in county planning policy, but where planning permission has yet to be granted.

Herefordshire Council is obliged to address the high and rising need for care home accommodation in the county, according to an analysis accompanying the application.

Herefordshire already has 47 care homes, of which five have been built in the last decade, it adds.

Comments on the outline planning application for the care home can be made via Herefordshire Council’s webpage until May 24.