A £10m care home planned in Ashington will not be allowed to be built – because it will clash with efforts to reopen a railway line.
The Malhotra Group revealed plans last year for a 58-bed care home and a separate 12-bedroom specialist unit on vacant land in Kenilworth Road.
But the scheme was knocked back by councillors on Tuesday evening, on the grounds that the land is instead earmarked to become a car park that would serve the Ashington station for the Northumberland Line project.
