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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

Alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre that split opinion approved

Plans to transform a disused care home have been approved.

Substance Rehabilitation Ltd applied to convert the former College Green care home on College Road in Crosby into a residential detox facility for private clients. It will house those seeking recovery from drug and alcohol addiction for anywhere between one week and three months.

In the Design and Access statement submitted as part of the application, it said: "Substance Rehabilitation provide a twelve-step focused and evidenced-based therapeutic interventions within a community residential setting. These include group therapy sessions, individual 1:1 counselling, reflective written worksheets and personal journals, as well as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and complimentary and holistic supportive activities including meditation, art therapy, gong therapy, yoga.

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