A former care home, which was closed following a damning watchdog report, could be turned into flats and a house.
Firbank, on Crescent Road in Shanklin, was shut in September last year by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) when inspectors found people did not receive a service that ensured they were safe.
Inspectors also said people were not cared for in a safe environment, finding a number of concerns, including unsafe escape routes.
Now, plans have been unveiled by Ian Schaff, of Wight Property Partners, to transform the home, which once housed up to 19 residents, into 6 flats and a house.
The Victorian property would be split into 4x 1-bed and 2x 2-bed flats along with a 4-bedroom house.
Little alteration is proposed for the building, which was extended and altered multiple times while it was a care home. Planning documents say it is not viable to change it further to meet current care standards.
Phil Salmon, planning agent on behalf of the development, said the conversion will require internal changes that are sympathetic to the original form and provide an effective and efficient use of space. Mr Salmon says the existing building has some design value, due to the original Victorian-villa style, and offers an opportunity to promote a sustainable residential scheme on previously developed land.
As part of the proposals, there will be eight parking spaces, and part of the garden sectioned off to go with the house.
It is hoped, should the scheme be approved, it could be brought forward quickly and ‘provide new residential units in a positive manner’.
To view the plans (22/00317/FUL), you can view the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 4th May.
just add that to the tally of s hitholes being created all over the island and voila, more people housed here from the mainland, that aren’t wanted where they are.
Better then leaving it empty.
Numnuts. ( Have you ever heard of the saying ‘pick your battles to win the war’).
no jollop – it would be better empty than full of deadbeats
So you prefer rampant homelessness and derelict housing? I guess that is the tory way, prevent the lower classes from getting jobs or homes so that you can hate them.
Hopefully fred the s cumbags will be housed next door to you, so that they can rob you, keep you awake at night and create the hell that they ensured that their previous neighbours endured.