Care home in new bid for conversion
A well-known care home in Bath could be turned into flats.
Englishcombe House, owned by Cedar Care Homes, provides assisted living for people in the early stages of dementia.
After the 20-bed building on Englishcombe Lane became “too small” and “uneconomical” to run, the company applied for permission to make it a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) in 2015.
Those plans were refused then dismissed on appeal due to noise issues. In 2018, Cedar lodged a new scheme for seven self-contained flats.
That scheme was approved but permission has now lapsed so the owner has applied again to turn the building into apartments. The new plans, submitted on September 21, also propose knocking down a garage on the site and building a twostorey house in its place.
The number of parking spaces would also increase going from three to nine, to cater for new residents.
In the design and access statement, BBA Architects explained: “Englishcombe House was a single residential home until 2003 when planning permission was granted to convert the building into a care home.”
It adds: “The client is looking to change the use of the building back to residential (C3) in the form of 7 self-contained flats and a detached dwelling in the place of the existing garage.”
A new access route would be created off Englishcombe Way to allow access to the flats, but the house would use an existing drive. All the original features of Englishcombe House would“remain”.
You can comment on the application at www.bathnes. gov.uk/webforms/planning/ details.html?refval=21%2f0431 5%2Fful#comments_section until October 29.