Once-ambitious plans to transform a former care home on the outskirts of town into sheltered housing and a day nursery seem to have quietly fallen by the wayside, Express can reveal, with the site now inviting bids of upwards of £1.75m after six years of lying empty.
Parish-owned St Helier House on Westmount Road has recently been put on the market for residential or commercial development – despite parishioners voting overwhelmingly in 2021 for the parish to sell the site to Andium Homes for £2.9 million for development into housing and a new building for Westmount Day Nursery.
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