Plan to use Gayton care home site as hostel rejected

The care home shut in early 2022 and was used as a hostel without permission from November.

A plan to turn a former care home into a hostel has been rejected after about 140 residents expressed opposition.

Westgate House on Eastcote Road in Gayton, Northamptonshire, shut in early 2022 and was used as a hostel without permission from November. Owners Midlands Living CIC said it wanted to house asylum seekers there, but the Home Office decided not to.The council had told the company it needed to officially apply in order to use it as a hostel.After the Home Office decided not to use the site for asylum seekers in February, the hostel had been used for unspecified occupants, theIt added that due to the shortage of care home places in the area, the site should be used for its original purpose.

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