Latest care home plans revealed
Herts County Council is seeking to move ahead with its plans for a new care home on the site of the former Little Furze School in Gosforth Lane as reported in our Autumn newsletter.
The school was shut by the Conservatives in 2004 and since then has been empty and boarded up.
The 75-bed care home already has outline planning permission which was granted two years ago. Your Labour team continues to push for the maximum number of 70 homes which too already have permission on the site to be at “social rent” i.e. at the lowest rents.
Now the county council is seeking to put some flesh on the bones and supply greater detail of what they propose. If you want to make a comment on the county council’s care homes plans, then please see the attached pdf for details of a webinar and their consultation response site www.vincent-gorbing.co.uk/consultations which is open until the 23 November.
The school was shut by the Conservatives in 2004 and since then has been empty and boarded up.
The 75-bed care home already has outline planning permission which was granted two years ago. Your Labour team continues to push for the maximum number of 70 homes which too already have permission on the site to be at “social rent” i.e. at the lowest rents.
Now the county council is seeking to put some flesh on the bones and supply greater detail of what they propose. If you want to make a comment on the county council’s care homes plans, then please see the attached pdf for details of a webinar and their consultation response site www.vincent-gorbing.co.uk/consultations which is open until the 23 November.
COUNCILLOR TELLS OF “COVID HELL”
As the death toll from Coronavirus continues to climb, local Labour parish councillor William Waite, a father-of-four has shared his personal story with his fellow residents.
“I got the virus during mid-April, writes William. It was a peak time in the pandemic.
As a patient transport ambulance driver you could say I was on the frontline. I ended up in bed for ten days solid,
most of it soundly asleep.
My wife who was on leave from her job tended to me - an absolute angel.
It was a harrowing journey for us all. My teenage daughter would run past my bedroom in our semi in Caldwell Road for fear she would catch it.
I felt like I was burning from the inside out. My breath was so shallow I was gasping for air. All my energy was sapped fighting the virus. Thankfully I was not hospitalised, but on two occasions we called for an ambulance.
Twice I remember thinking, am I going to make it through the night?
I was off work for nearly three weeks. My taste and smell just went. I didn’t eat.
It was hell and I’m still suffering shortness of breath, but consider myself one of the lucky ones. I know there are so many less fortunate than myself.”
“I got the virus during mid-April, writes William. It was a peak time in the pandemic.
As a patient transport ambulance driver you could say I was on the frontline. I ended up in bed for ten days solid,
most of it soundly asleep.
My wife who was on leave from her job tended to me - an absolute angel.
It was a harrowing journey for us all. My teenage daughter would run past my bedroom in our semi in Caldwell Road for fear she would catch it.
I felt like I was burning from the inside out. My breath was so shallow I was gasping for air. All my energy was sapped fighting the virus. Thankfully I was not hospitalised, but on two occasions we called for an ambulance.
Twice I remember thinking, am I going to make it through the night?
I was off work for nearly three weeks. My taste and smell just went. I didn’t eat.
It was hell and I’m still suffering shortness of breath, but consider myself one of the lucky ones. I know there are so many less fortunate than myself.”
