Plans submitted to replace fire swept care home

New plans have been submitted for a retirement complex in Crewe to replace a facility gutted by fire nearly seven years ago.

About 150 elderly and disabled residents were evacuated from Beechmere Extra Care when fire ripped through the timber-framed building on Rolls Avenue in August 2019.

Planning permission was secured for a replacement 132-apartment extra care building on the site the following year, but it was never built.

Now the plans are for a smaller facility containing 75 one and two-bed apartments.