PLANS for a new care home on a green belt site in Brierley have been given the thumbs up by Barnsley Council.
Applicant Mitesh Dhanak’s scheme to create an extra four-storey building, containing 32 apartments, in the grounds of the existing Bollingbroke House Care Home, off Common Road, to ‘address a shortfall’ in the north-east district was approved on Tuesday.
It is anticipated that 21 employees - 12 full-time and nine part-time - would provide 24-hour assistance to residents, according to a planning statement sent on behalf of Mr Dhanak.
“In essence the proposal is for the development of a four-storey building within the curtilage of the Bollingbroke House,” it added.
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