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# Backing for plans to replace Burntwood care home
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/backing-for-plans-to-replace-burntwood-care-home/
- Published: 2024-08-01T06:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-01T06:57:48.000Z
- Description: Councillors have backed plans to replace a care home in Burntwood.
- Author: Jonathan Sutton, Local Democracy Reporter
- Tags: Burntwood, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:53, News

COUNCILLORS have backed plans to replace a care home in Burntwood.

A report to Staffordshire County Council’s health and care overview and scrutiny committee said there was a clear need to plan ahead for the Bracken House facility, as well as the Meadowyrthe site in Tamworth.

It explained that the two sites had a bed capacity of 34 and 41 respectively, but added that demand was outstripping supply – and warned it would only get worse if action was not taken.

Cllr Julia Jessel said:

> “We have two existing care homes in Meadowyrthe and Bracken that are time expired.  
>  
> “They’re on sites that have limited ability, either through the design of the building or the constraints of the site, to expand them and develop them.  
>  
> “Developing two new homes is a way of actually addressing the fact that we’ve got two existing homes that will need replacement, but actually affords the opportunity to increase capacity and have a nursing home element as well.”

A final decision on whether to push ahead with the replacement homes is expected in September.