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Brent care home to be turned into 12-bed house for 'vulnerable mothers and children'

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Vincent
Published date10 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
The existing two-storey 11-bedroom residential care home on Draycott Avenue in Brent will be re-purposed into specialist emergency accommodation to meet the growing number of homeless applications. Housing company Exodus will manage the property and have agreed a condition that it can only be used by Brent Council

The original planning application refers only to ‘vulnerable mothers and children’ but Brent Council have told the Local Democracy Reporting Service LDRS that the facility will be a B&B-style property and used for anyone in the borough in need of temporary emergency accommodation. Due to the demand for this type of housing, planning documents state that a number of the rooms ‘are already occupied by vulnerable mothers’.

There are currently 749 households in emergency accommodation in the borough, with none on any waiting list. But the growing need has meant some people moved into the site in December of last year and the planning application was submitted as quickly as possible ‘to address the situation formally on site’.

Brent Council will be able to use the accommodation in whatever way is needed to meet the highest need at the time. This is also to ensure that any future use of the building...

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