Plans for new child care home submitted

Plans have been submitted to Peterborough City Council to convert a residential house into a specialist care home for children.

Good Seed Care Ltd hopes to accommodate up to four children, aged between seven and 18, who will either have been diagnosed with learning disabilities or have emotional and behavioural difficulties.

The property on Eastfield Road in Peterborough is a five-bed detached house with four off street parking spaces to the front and a garage to the rear.

If approved, the home will be registered with Ofsted as a four-bed children's home, with the children expected to live there long-term and prepare for life outside of care.

The planning documents said the home would seek to replicate a "normal family environment" to help children who had "not had good parenting in their early years".

Two carers would work at the home at all times on a rota basis, providing 24-hour care and sleeping overnight.

The plans said the home would "provide a therapeutic approach with a high level of individualised care".

It also states the company aims "to provide an environment that reflects as realistically as possible, that of a genuine and nurturing family environment".

"Some of our young people will have experienced several placement and relationship breakdowns, which have further entrenched the disadvantage and trauma they have experienced," the company says.

"We aim to provide a home in which children and young people feel secure and valued."

City council planners will make a decision on the planning application at a later date.

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