71-bed care home in Wiltshire set to advance

A proposed 71-bed care home in a Wiltshire town could soon secure approval.Land at Verbena Court in Melksham has been earmarked for the scheme by applicant Frontier Estates (San) Ltd.The application seeks full planning permission for construction of a 71-bed care home for mixed levels of care, comprising residential, nursing and specialist dementia.Also included is associated infrastructure with vehicular access being gained off Snowberry Lane. There would also be on-site parking, landscaping and drainage provision.The application site is approximately one-acre in area and comprises a triangular section of vacant grassland outside the defined settlement limits for Melksham.Wiltshire Council’s strategic planning committee will consider the application tomorrow (4 June).A report for the committee said: “The proposal would relate well to the spatial form of Melksham and the Eastern urban extension using existing road infrastructure and would offer accessible walking and/or cycling routes into the town and its services and facilities.”The application site would also make s106 contributions to the local healthcare services and CIL payments.”A recommendation has been made to grant planning permission, subject to the first completion of a planning obligation/section 106 legal agreement and planning conditions.