PLANS for a 60-bed nursing home in Stockbridge have been refused on the grounds that it's an undesirable development in the countryside'.
Test Valley Borough Council's southern area planning committee met in Romsey to discuss the application by Eurocare Investments Ltd.
With almost 40 individual objections from local residents, parish councils, Highways and other authorities the refused the application.
Plans for the nurisng home, which would have been to the west of Houghton Road, included a 32-bed high dependency unit along with apartments for 24 keyworkers.
It was also proposed to create a new access onto Houghton Road with car parking and landscaped gardens.
The committee agreed with planning officers that alongside it being an undesirable development in the countryside there were four other grounds for refusal. They included the fact that it was likely to generate additional pedestrian traffic' where there were no facilities for pedestrians and the application failed to make a financial contribution and provision for highway infrastructure works'. The application had also been submitted without a Flood Risk Assessment
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