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Ernehale Lodge Care Home in Arnold

Taxpayers have been lumped with a £6,000 bill after a developer successfully appealed the council’s decision to reject its plans to turn a nursing home into apartments. Gedling Borough Council turned down plans to convert Ernehale Lodge Nursing Home in Arnold i nto 19 apartments at a planning committee meeting in September last year.

Councillors argued the development required 16 car park spaces, rather than the 13 that had been proposed by developer Mr Waseem Shafiq, of Arnold Point Limited. They said adequate off-street parking was therefore not provided, and feared the development would “cause unacceptable issues of on-street parking to the detriment of highway safety”.

However Mr Shafiq appealed the decision to the Government’s Planni

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