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Published:
March 6, 2008
Multi-million
pound plans for Berrow Medical Centre are withdrawn
Ambitious
plans to
build a new £2.5million medical centre at Berrow have been
withdrawn this week by the developers behind the scheme.
 It
comes after district council planners raised concerns about the
"intrusive design" of the proposed building, pictured
right, which was earmarked for Brent Road.
A
Sedgemoor District Council planning spokesman told Burnham-On-Sea.com:
"This substantial proposal includes a new medical centre
and associated accommodation involving the relocation of facilities
from their long-standing urban sites to a greenfield site away
from their resident population and for which no special justification
has been put forward."
"The
erection of these large buildings of an intrusive design which
is unsympathetic to the local vernacular and external materials,
on an exposed site largely devoid of screening, would be out of
character and at odds with the simple, small scale residential
homes."
The
council also had concerns about the proposed location of the property,
on previously undeveloped land in an area deemed to be at risk
from flooding.
In
January, dozens of residents attended a meeting
in Berrow Village Hall to
hear more about the proposed Berrow
Health Campus where the plans got a mixed reaction.
Burnham-On-Sea.com
was first to unveil the proposals last summer when it was announced
there are three elements to the scheme - an additional medical
centre and pharmacy, a new elderly psychiatric day hospital to
replace Berrow's Little Court; and a brand new NHS dentist.
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