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13-07-2015 09:43 PM

Thanks for that Michael.

There are some bonkers and costly recommendations in that document, so this cannot be about saving money: it’s just herding people about, as there are more people than homes, so it’s not a solution.

A planning condition preventing residents staying longer than 26 weeks is NOT recommended – these people are going to end up trapped in their modern poorhouses, and everything which comes with that, for a lot longer than the Council have continually insisted will be the case.

At Hamilton Lodge, there are still 5 units with shared facilities – this should be zero, it’s a dreadful predicament to put children through when their privacy is already so limited. And the “Emergency Overnight Admissions & Assessments Room” remains. A planning condition that households be classified as “at least one adult with at least one child” is recommended. Why would any mother/father and child be made homeless during the night (DV maybe)? I could understand a high dependent individual needing this service, but under the proposed planning constraints that can’t happen. This does seem a wasted space.

This Planning Committee is being led to believe that no other use options of the buildings are viable. The Officers state: “Following an inspection in June 2013, it was concluded the home (Hamilton Lodge) no longer met Care Quality Commission standards and it was not considered by the owners to be economically viable or practical to refurbish the property. As such it closed and has remained vacant since.”

The CQC report says nothing, absolutely zilch, about the fabric of the building or its suitability for use as a care home. This has been the line spun by the Council all along, and it’s clearly a smokescreen. The CQC report of October 2013 identified 5 key areas where enforcement action had been taken, the most serious one involving some equipment: specifically, battery-operated hoists were not in use because one had been repossessed and the other had flat batteries because the charger had also been repossessed. Consequently, patients were transferred via a manual hoist and this had caused some injuries to patients. The Officers should make this absolutely clear to those Councillors sitting on Planning Committee A, as they cannot make an informed decision without that information. A growing older population needs care homes too.

And is it right that Cllr Upex sits on this committee which makes the decision when he has already professed his support for the proposals (TLERA newsletter, se23.com)?

I realise that the meeting date and time suits most people, but I can’t make it. Is anyone speaking up on behalf of the many objectors (“31 letters of objection”, “numerous objections on the loss of the nursing home”, etc., they’re all in the document which Michael has kindly provided the link to)?

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