A KENT village will see some 100 jobs created when a care home is built there.

District council planners had recommended rejecting Graham Homes’s plans for a massive 80-bed care home for elderly people and people with dementia at Hurricane Way, on a former aerodrome site in Hawkinge, near Folkestone.

But councillors sitting on the development control committee approved the outline proposals after rejecting their officers’ assertion that the care home would hold up other industry on the site.

The application was passed and it now remains for the Graham Care group to submit a detailed application.