EVESHAM’S ambulance station site could become a care home if re-development plans are successful.

The building in Davies Road is currently still in use by the emergency services but is being sold off due to funding cuts. 

It is under offer from an unnamed buyer after being put on the market in January for £600,000.

Plans submitted by Restful Homes Development, which is not confirmed as the company to have made the offer on the building, would see it transformed into a 66-bed care home.

The application was welcomed by Evesham Town Council, with Councillor Gerry O’Donnell saying he was happy to see more homes for the elderly. 

“I would support this,” he said.

“I don’t think it has got a huge environmental impact.

"It is right across from the college so I don’t see any problem and I have not received any representations.”

Coun Robert Raphael said: “It is a three-storey building so I do have concerns over privacy and potential blocking out of light but I am sure that Wychavon council will look into that.”

When the ambulance base closes, it will relocate to a community station in Abbey Lane, which is currently being refurbished.

This will not happen until the Abbey Bridge in the town centre is re-opened.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said the service currently had a temporary station at the fire station and at the site in Davies Road so it could respond on either side of the river while the bridge is out of action.

At the new Abbey Lane station there will be a rapid response vehicle, an advanced paramedic and the facility for an ambulance.

The spokesman added that an ambulance would not be based permanently at the station with assessments made on where it is needed most at the time.

The care home proposals will be considered by Wychavon District Council’s planning committee at a later date.