Plans to demolish and redevelop a North Yorkshire nursing home have been given the go-ahead.
Members of North Yorkshire Council’s Richmond area planning committee have given final approval for the work at Morris Grange Nursing Home, near Middleton Tyas.
They had already given provisional agreement but had asked for more information on amended plans submitted by the developer.
The application was resubmitted because the developer was unhappy with conditions allowing residents living near the site the use of both private access roads.
Instead, they proposed that residents use one road, which runs east-west and connects with a new road built when the A1(M) was widened, and users of the new care home use another, which runs north-south to Scurragh House Lane.
Local residents had argued that they have traditionally had access to both roads.
The amended plans were unanimously approved by councillors at the meeting on Thursday.
Plans for a 50-bed care home with 23 apartments were originally submitted in 2020, but the scheme was reduced in size in new plans submitted last year.
It is estimated the new home will create 36 jobs.
Morris Grange Nursing Home closed in 2019.
