Closed Herefordshire care home is sold off

8:00am Wednesday 13th February 2013 in News

A ROSS-on-Wye care home that closed 18 months ago has been sold.

The Chestnuts Home for the Elderly was a central part of the town for more than 20 years, but its trustees and Herefordshire Council decided to close it in August 2011.

As reported in the Hereford Times in July, the trustees said that they could not pay double the rent on a much reduced term that was being offered to them.

The property subsequently lost its licence to operate as a residential care home, despite protests held by residents and their families to try and save it.

A sale has this week been agreed and contracts signed.

The new owner of The Chestnuts has since submitted a planning application to the council to restore the property to a family residence, along with creating five new homes on the site.

Comments(5)

M M says...
1:50pm Wed 13 Feb 13

It was a care home for 50 years at least.
This was a tragedy for the residents and the caring staff who lost their jobs
Some of the residents were sent to other homes out of the county.
Ah! well we know money is more important than people, most having paid into the system all of their lives.
My grandmother used to say "When your old your only in the way" this seems to be very true today.

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TwoWheelsGood says...
2:21pm Wed 13 Feb 13

The question has to be asked - did the council get the best possible price for the site? If not, why not? If permission is granted for 5 dwellings that’s worth say £0.5m to the purchaser, plus the value of the property itself. If we're reduced to selling things off to make the books balance, then at least get the market value. Will a Councillor come on here on and confirm they've done that?

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bobby47 says...
5:05pm Wed 13 Feb 13

TWG & MM, How can they do this? By all means dispose of unnecessary assets but this? This is a step to far!
It's disgraceful behaviour and this Council should bow their heads in shame.
Despite this, they'll build their 8 million quid record office down at Rotherwas and think nothing of it.
I bloody hate this Council and their distorted view of what we need and what we actually bloody want.
I'll bet my left testicle that they sold this home and a 'home' it was, for a rock bottom price. It makes you want to hurl phlegm.
Every bloody day is worse than the last. These are the economics of the crazy.
I gotta get help! Bloody Hell!

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TwoWheelsGood says...
10:56pm Wed 13 Feb 13

The Council have form for this sort of thing - remember the West Mercia Supplies they quarter owned, sold last year for £6.74m and sold on just a week later for £11m ...

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M M says...
6:17pm Thu 14 Feb 13

Oh well we have to pay the massive salaries for the Fat Cats at the top, so the old folks don't count.
We can only hope the saying "What goes round comes round" will apply to them one day and they have time to reflect on the misery they are causing not just to the old but to so many other people in the County with all the increased charges and cuts etc being imposed on us !!

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