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52 bed care home for Garden City site

by Irvin Clifford 20 Feb 2010

Baronial Properties Limited of Greenock have applied to NAC and have been granted an application to demolish and then build a 52 bed care home on the site of Newhouse Dairy bungalow and garages in the Garden City, Kilbirnie.

The proposed building will be two stories in height and is proposed to be finished in the same style as the social work building at the foot of Munro Drive, behind the health centre.

It will also be approximately the same height as the building in Munro Drive.

The proposed access road for the development for the care home is across the raised pavement at the flower beds in front of the war memorial, to come onto Holmhead Road facing the Lunch Box shop.

Various objections have been raised by both residents next to the proposed development and from the shop owners whose properties back onto the development as well as objections from the health centre over the lack of funding to them to provide health cover for the care home.

What do you think??

Is this a good thing for the town and if not why not??


21 Feb 2010 | 10:20:56

david brennan says

I think it is a good idea because it may mean that those who have relatives in care who are farmed out to Largs, Kilwinning, Saltcoats and Beith can bring them Home. I'm surprised that the Health Centre have objected. It might mean that they will have to raise their game.

28 Feb 2010 | 8:26:56

Guest User says

Wouldn't it be great if anyone who needs care could live in their home town with people they know and feel safe with ? I wonder if the people who are objecting have ever had to leave their loved ones in a care home full of strangers and too far away to visit regularly ? Anyone objecting to this should remember that one day most of us will benefit from having this facility. As for the Health Centre, I thought maybe community care would be a priority. So stop putting up barriers, and build a care home for our families in Kilbirnie.

1 Mar 2010 | 1:01:57

Irvin Clifford says

Hey guest user and david brennan, yeah it would be great if we could all be cared for in our old age in the town we know, gotta agree with that, also guest user there is no barrier to the care home being built it is going to happen the council have approved the submitted plans and specifications so its a goer.

As for the objections, the health centre's objection was on the grounds that the health board will not supply extra funding to provide adequate cover for the care home thus leading to the other services the health centre provides being affected by a funding shortfall, the other objections are from local business owners and residents who will be directly affected by the site during construction and after completion in as much that the shops at Newhouse Dairy will not now be allowed to off load deliveries of stock from the rear of the premises instead they will have to off load at the kerb side which may cause traffic and access problems whilst they are doing so and the increase in traffic and congestion on the road at that point by staff cars, visitors etc to and from the care home, that piece of road is already very congested at times with the co-op and the lunch box as well as the traffic to the health centre.

Personally I think that the care home is a good thing for the points you both raised, unfortunately I do not know the time scale for the construction starting or otherwise.

8 Apr 2010 | 11:36:44

John Crawford says

The shops on Dalry Road have rights of access to the rear of their properties and can't be stopped from exercising these.

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