TOP marks go to the Torus Group for their visionary and ambitious plans to turn the piece of brownfield land in Atlas Street, Parr into 130 care homes for people of 55 years of age and over.
This section of the housing market has simply been ignored by builders for a great number of years but when completed this complex will undoubtedly prove beneficial to the older people of St Helens.
Some of these people who will take up residence there will no doubt be vacating much larger properties which in turn could provide accommodation to a bigger family thereby helping in a small way to reduce the need to build more houses on valuable agricultural land.
H Lea, Windle
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