A parish council has called plans for a 66-bed care home complex “fundamentally flawed” before proposals go up for debate.

Swale council’s planning committee will discuss the scheme, which would see the three-story brick building to be built on the land west of Barton Hill Drive, Minster.

Proposals include “high quality” single rooms with en-suites plus cinema, café, bar, dining rooms, and family rooms.

If approved, there will be a library, garden room and hairdressers and parking for 25 cars.

The complex is part of the first phase of the development that includes 100 homes and will be built by developers Persimmon.

The planning committee rejected an application for the overall development that included 700 homes in 2019.

However, planning permission was granted in March 2020 after going to appeal.

Minster-on-Sea Parish Council has offered its “strongest possible objections” to the proposals.

Although the council supports “the underlying principle of providing a care home,” it says the plans are “fundamentally flawed” due to its proposed location on Barton Hill Drive and the A2500 Lower Road.

The council said: “The care home is situated in the worst possible location as the proposal presents as a focus point for noise and polluted air which will only worsen with time.

“The noise and traffic pollution created by the care home's location will be detrimental to the quality of life and health and wellbeing the future occupants might reasonably be expected to enjoy.

“The picture painted within the documentation of an environment that is pleasing with benches outside is contrary to the reality that those residents will experience.”

The council added that it believes the number of car parking spaces is “inadequate” and that the building was not in keeping with “the street scene”.

LNT Care Developments is behind the project – a firm which has built more than 200 care homes since 2005. The developers believe the care home is “much needed” to provide services to older people.

The plans stated: “It has been primarily designed to be suitable and amenable for its future elderly residents.

“In doing so, and due to the nature of the use, it is designed to be entirely accessible and user friendly for people of all abilities.”

A total of 62 jobs, including 40 full-time and 22 part-time, would be created if the plans go ahead.

You can view the plans by clicking here, with reference 23/501017/FULL.

The meeting will take place at 7pm tomorrow (Thursday).