Developers were already being offered a large care home site in South Bristol up to a year before residents and their relatives were told it was going to close. And the huge 3,47 acre site of the Amerind Grove care home could now see hundreds of flats built, after council planning officers told the owners that they would look favourably on demolishing the care home and building new homes there.
Residents and their relatives of the 52 remaining residents of the Amerind Grove care home on Raleigh Road in Ashton Gate were told this week that the care home will close, because the company running it could not recruit and retain enough staff to keep it going.
But the plans to redevelop the prime site near North Street’s Tobacco Factory have been drawn up for more than a year. Bristol Live has seen a confidential brochure marketing the site to prospective developers that makes it clear city council planning officers were asked what they thought about it being redeveloped back in December 2021.
