PLANNING chiefs have approved plans to transform a former brain injury unit near Bewdley into apartments.

The planning application to convert the existing clinic into five apartments, converting the existing building into a house and building four new homes, was given the go ahead by Wyre Forest District Council’s planning committee at their meeting on Tuesday, February 21.

The application had been submitted by Christopher Charles Properties.

The site off Trimpley Lane, in Shatterford, near Bewdley, was the home to the former Park Attwood Clinic – a brain injury unit – which opened in 2011 but closed in 2014.

Since then, the Ruskin Mill Trust, a learning difficulties charity, has leased the property but were not able to sustain a viable business on site. At present, the property is vacant.

The report submitted to the committee said: “Planning permission is sought for the conversion of the existing Park Attwood house to form five apartments – comprising of two two-bed apartments and three three-bed apartments – and the redevelopment of the site to provide five detached dwellings within the group, four to be new build dwellings and the fifth to be created through the conversion and extension of an existing site access.”