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Plans Accepted For Fourways Day Centre

Plans have been approved for a new Fourways Day Centre in Poole which will provide better care facilities for a wide range of disable users.

Outline planning permission was granted at a meeting of Borough of Poole’s Planning Committee on Thursday, April 19.

The application includes plans for a new Well-being centre offering improved day care facilities for disabled people, which will include space for a range of activities. In addition, dedicated space will be provided for the charity, Headway Dorset , which provides services for people with acquired brain injury. The three-storey building will also provide affordable housing with 17 residential flats.

Detailed design of the project will involve all existing users groups of the current Fourways Centre.

In addition to the Well-being centre, the plans include a residential care home providing 80 bedrooms for dementia patients to replace the existing care home on the Fourways site on Constitution Hill Road. Part of the site will also be developed for private housing, offering 24 terraced and semi-detached homes and 25 flats.

Charlie Sheldrick, Head of Adult Social Care and Well-being, Borough of Poole, said: “It is the council’s priority to create a new centre that maintains services for those who are currently using it, whilst making it ‘fit for purpose’ in the 21st century for new users to benefit. This decision represents a positive step forward in the council’s aim of achieving this goal.”

Lisa Gaskell, Communications Co-ordinator
Tel: 01202 633060