Plans for new assisted living home for children in Eastbourne approved
Plans to convert a property into an assisted living home for children have been approved by Eastbourne Borough Council.
The proposal will see 132 Ashford Road change use to provide specialist residential accommodation for vulnerable children requiring a supportive living environment.
No alterations to the existing property or its access were proposed in the application.
The new home will see childcare coaches, support workers and therapists recruited locally.
Carers at the home will work between 7:30am and 10:30pm, while night staff will work 10pm-8am to ensure the property is not left unstaffed. No permanent carer will live on site.
Eight comments received, including three from the same household, raising objection related to parking space, highway safety, noise and antisocial behaviour in the area.
But planning officer Chloe Timm wrote in her report that ‘significant weight’ was afforded to the ‘social benefits’ of an assisted living home for children, adding that the proposal would help meet an ‘identified community need’.
Ms Timm concluded: “The development would not materially alter the character of the area, would not give rise to unacceptable impacts upon neighbouring residential amenity, and would not result in severe highway impacts notwithstanding the absence of dedicated parking provision.
“The proposal therefore complies with local and national policies.”
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