A PLANNING application has been approved for a 66-bed care home at the old British Sugar factory site in Kidderminster.

LNT Care Developments was given the go-ahead from Wyre Forest District Council on Friday (August 7) to build a three-storey elderly person's care home on land off Silverwoods Way, near to Wyre Forest Leisure Centre.

The new care home is expected to create around 60 jobs.

Kidderminster Shuttle: An artist's impression of the new 66-bed care home. Image from planning applicationAn artist's impression of the new 66-bed care home. Image from planning application

Nick Broadbent, development director at LNT Care Developments, said: "We are delighted to have received planning on this care home in Kidderminster and are due to start construction in the next couple of months.

"The home is designed to provide a high-quality resource for elderly people in the local community.

"The facility will incorporate intelligent dementia design and be eco-friendly by benefitting from ground source heat pumps and LED lighting keeping utility costs low."

Kidderminster Shuttle: An artist's impression of the new 66-bed care home. Image from planning applicationAn artist's impression of the new 66-bed care home. Image from planning application

LNT has developed over 100 care homes nationwide, most recently in Duston, York and Telford.

The new Kidderminster home will have 21 car parking spaces and two disabled spaces, as well as an ambulance and taxi drop-off area.

Access to the site will be from a newly-formed road off Silverwoods Way via the existing roundabout.

Kidderminster Shuttle: An artist's impression of the new care home car park. Image from planning applicationAn artist's impression of the new care home car park. Image from planning application

LNT says the home will fulfill a need for care home places in the area, while also creating jobs in the area both during construction and in the long-term operation of the home.

British Sugar closed its Kidderminster operation in 2004 and much of the site has already been redeveloped.