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RESIDENTS have raised objections to plans to demolish an Ilkley care home and replace it with a new-build care facility. Barchester Healthcare Ltd have acquired Hollycroft Care Home and want to knock down the building at 16 Hebers Ghyll Drive, Ilkley, and replace it with a new-build 31-bed care home with associated car parking, landscaping and amenity space provision. The building is not listed but it lies within Ilkley’s Conservation Area where it is described as a ‘key unlisted historic building’. The Edwardian villa was built in 1904 and was converted to a home for the elderly in 1979. It remained a care home for four decades before its closure by its then owners Four Seasons Health Care in 2017.
The unit the new Cooplands will be opening in COOPLANDS bakery has been granted permission to plans to open a branch in the centre of Ilkley. The Scarborough based company had applied for planning permission for signage and a new shop front for the former Hays Travel unit on Brook Street late last year. The application has now been approved by Bradford Council - but only after the company dropped plans to install a roller shutter on the building. The unit lies within the Ilkley Conservation Area, and Conservation officers had said the shutter would go against council policy, and harm the Conservation Area.
COOPLANDS bakery has been granted permission to plans to open a branch in the centre of Ilkley. The Scarborough based company had applied for planning permission for signage and a new shop front for the former Hays Travel unit on Brook Street late last year. The application has now been approved by Bradford Council – but only after the company dropped plans to install a roller shutter on the building. The unit lies within the Ilkley Conservation Area, and Conservation officers had said the shutter would go against council policy, and harm the Conservation Area. Bradford Council’s roller shutter policy discourages solid external shutters being installed on shops, claiming the security features have a “deadening effect” on the high street when businesses are shut.