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Search the Public Notice PortalThe firm behind a plan to knock down a modern Hereford church and replace it with a 52-bed care home is trying to get the decision to refuse it overturned.
Worcester-based Heritage Manor Ltd, which runs the Newstead House nursing home in the northeast of the city, sought planning permission last year to replace the neighbouring St Barnabas Church in Venns Lane with a similar care home.
In February, Herefordshire Council’s planning committee of councillors went against their own officers’ recommendation and refused the scheme by 12 votes to two, due to concerns about the larger building’s impact on neighbours, and “the permanent loss of an established community facility”.
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Heritage Manor managing director Simon Patient, who had urged the committee to back the plan given the rising number of over-80s in the county, has now launched an appeal to the Government’s Planning Inspectorate to get the decision reversed.
Little information has so far been published on the appeal, though it has been confirmed by the Bristol-based Planning Inspectorate, which is accepting comments until July 14.
Neighbouring ward councillor Frank Cornthwaite, a keen supported of keeping the building for community use, said though it now looks a little neglected from the outside, “inside it’s still immaculate”.
There is also now more political support nationally for maintaining church buildings within communities, he added.
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