VOTE: Crosby Hotel to be demolished to make way for care home
ONE of Scunthorpe's oldest pubs faces demolition after plans to create a new 70-bed care home were revealed.
The Crosby Hotel in Normanby Road – which also housed The Hangar venue – will be pulled down to make way for the care home if plans are given the green light by North Lincolnshire Council.
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A total of 27 jobs would be created if the home plans are approved.
And it could help tackle a potential care home crisis – with North Lincolnshire's elderly population set to nearly double by 2025.
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The plans are the third major care home application in the area in recent months.
In a statement lodged with the plans, the applicant, Ladhar Group, said: "The scheme will contribute positively to the area's wider regeneration aspirations."
The statement continued: "The existing building has come to the end of its useful life and it is important in visual and economic terms that a new, appropriate use is found for the site."
The firm has care homes in the north-east of England, with others in the pipeline.
Bosses at the group say these new plans will offer the same levels of service and accommodation as their other facilities.
Mike Welton, head of planning at North Lincolnshire Council, said: "These are very early days in the application and the consultation process, which will allow the public to have their say, will run until Monday, September 13.
"We will listen to the public during this period and go on to make a decision from there.
"This application was initially received last year, but members of the planning department refused to validate the application as more information was needed.
"Now that extra detail has been supplied it has been possible to begin the consultation period."
The application is set to go before the planning committee in November.
It would see 70 en-suite bedrooms built along with dining rooms and lounges.
A hairdressing salon would also be built on site for residents.
Ladhar, which currently runs seven homes, has opened two in Yorkshire this year.
It has also started work on two purpose-built care homes in Barnsley and Sheffield – after securing £14-million of funding to expand its healthcare division.
At the time of going to press Ladhar Group was unavailable for comment.
Comments
by Bill Cheetham, Bonby
Tuesday, September 14 2010, 10:46AM
“Thoades, I could not agree more with your last point, per se here in North Lincs.
You only have to look at the evidence on the ground and check out the comments, experiences and opinions expressed within Scunthorpe's local media and community forums and its 'politically' (with a VERY small p) motivated blogs.
Regrettably such a parochial and self serving mindset and culture must undoubtedly go some way to accounting for Scunthorpe's evident decline over recent years and for the dubious calibre, performance and reputation of its political and government systems and local services?!
And it is such attitudes that some of us and many more potential newcomers, should seriously consider whether North Lincs and Scunthorpe has the calibre, consistency and sincerity to seriously live up to the hype of being a fantastic place to live, work and do business?!!”
by LRB, Scunthorpe
Thursday, September 09 2010, 6:44PM
“Why are people bothered about saving this building? It doesn't matter what they do with it as it's in an area that has been ruined by the people living around it. I have fond memories of growing up not far from that area & now it¿s turned in to a place you wouldn't feel safe to walk down at night. I would rather they sealed it off from the rest of the town. Queue the angry responses ;)”
by RobS, Goole
Tuesday, September 07 2010, 1:37PM
“Onshore wind farms 'Urbanise' - really? Some people need to get out more. Other than a few batty old women who think the 'vibration' is damaging 'cos they read some studies by an equally batty woman in the USA - everyone I know marvels at the elegance and beauty of the wind turbines and YES I have voted to have them in MY back yard. Read proper studies like one by Manchester University, go stand near some of the turbines and use common sense. Did they have such a fuss over windmills when they were first built?”
by Any Old Iron, North Lincolnshire
Monday, September 06 2010, 10:23PM
“" - other towns have better examples of your treasured hovels." - exactly what I've been saying. ALL our heritage is being destroyed, let's protect our remaining few. We have a short history compared with other places - in LIverpool (and many other places too) they've protected their historic buildings. Why the urge to destroy - let's protect a little more.”
by RobS, Goole
Monday, September 06 2010, 12:48PM
“'End of it's useful life' ?? So now there is a 'Use By' date on buildings in S. Lincs. ? See what has been done to the Lowther Hotel in Goole and marvel at an amazing restoration which was not done by money grabbing developers. They even had the listing protection increased which devalued their investment, but protected the building. If the Crosby Hotel has local support then it should be saved.”
by Paul, Scunthorpe
Sunday, September 05 2010, 10:07PM
“Pittwood House can't be knocked down, this1960s office block is a listed building.”
by alfred mann, scunthorpe
Sunday, September 05 2010, 9:45PM
“they should knock down pitwood house instead”
by alf, The real world
Sunday, September 05 2010, 9:32PM
“St Andrew's Church (box) was ugly when it was built, it's a horrible building!!
Can't help wondering if the desire to rescue it is simply a thinly veiled effort to prevent a nursing home being built on the site and spoiling one or two people's view.
Who wanted to save The Furnace Arms? It was a drugs den!
Knock down St Andrew's and the Crosby. If I had my way, I'd flatten all those stinky terraces behind it too.
"Save the multi-storey", "save the market"... why didn't you save the old abattoir and sewage farm?
Get our more and you'll see that other towns have better examples of your treasured hovels.”
by Snowy, Ashby
Sunday, September 05 2010, 9:23PM
“Maybe the Telegraph could lead a campaign by printing a notice in their paper night after night which people can cut out, sign and send to the council.... Oh wait !! the last time they did that it was to save the Model Traffic area but when it was built upon they hypocritically move in to the development.”
by Any Old Iron, North Lincolnshire
Sunday, September 05 2010, 8:34PM
“This campaign is growing - let's keep the pressure on - NOT just for the Crosby but other buildings too - St Andrews Church!!”