PLANNING chiefs are to visit an NHS centre for people with learning disabilities before deciding whether a 12ft high security fence can be built around it.
Members of the borough council’s planning committee deferred a decision on an application by the 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust for permission for the fence around the facility in Birch Avenue, Winwick.
They will inspect the site before considering the matter again.
Local councillor Brian Maher opposes the scheme on the grounds the proposals will harm the visual amenity of nearby residential properties and the Green Belt.
But planning officers are recommending the scheme be approved and say the fence will be 65 metres away from the nearest house and will be a mesh fence, designed to limit its visual impact.
PLANNING chiefs are to visit an NHS centre for people with learning
disabilities before deciding whether a 12ft high security fence can be
built around it.
Security fence plan under scrutiny
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Experienced journalist for more than 40 years. Managing Director of magazine publishing group with three in-house titles and on-line daily newspaper for Warrington. Experienced writer, photographer, PR consultant and media expert having written for local, regional and national newspapers. Specialties: PR, media, social networking, photographer, networking, advertising, sales, media crisis management. Chair of Warrington Healthwatch Director Warrington Chamber of Commerce Patron Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. Trustee Warrington Disability Partnership. Former Chairman of Warrington Town FC.
