Care home could be demolished and replaced with council housing

PLANS have been submitted to turn a rundown care home into council housing.

- By JOE LOCKER

Laura Chambers Lodge, in Swansdowne Drive in Clifton, has been vacant since 2016.

Nottingham City Council had been planning to convert the building into temporary accommodation. However, the authority ultimately decided it was unsuitable.

Following changes in the government's Right to Buy policy, funding was made available to use the site for the development of council housing.

The plan was approved at an Executive Board meeting in December 2024, and the authority has now submitted plans for the development.

The council's housing service plans to build 12 family homes and 40 apartments, subject to approval by planners.

“Twelve two-storey family housing units are located along Tamworth Grove in the form of three terraces of four homes with a ginnel to the centre for rear access,” a planning statement says.