× WORK to demolish a derelict former care home in Monk Bretton is finally underway after years of arson attacks.
Outline planning permission was granted to demolish the Belmont facility, off Lamb Lane, and replace it with a residential development of up to 82 homes.
Applicant Anthony Lidster, whose family own the site, had originally sought consent in August 2019 though it wasn’t approved until earlier this month.
More than a dozen fires deemed ‘serious’ have occurred at the building - which was erected in the late 1960s - since January 2019.
Coun Steve Green, who represents the Monk Bretton ward, told the Chronicle he is glad to see work to demolish the ‘eyesore’ of a building has started.