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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Plans submitted to turn former 160-year-old family shop into nursery
PLANS have been submitted to turn a 160-year-old family-run toy store in Sedgley into a day nursery. The famous BD Price toy and bike store closed its doors last month, with owner Dan Price saying the current cost of living crisis has led to a drop in footfall, with sales decreasing and the costs of running the business increasing. Plans have now been submitted to Dudley Council by Loraine McHale, who runs the Cloud 9 Day Nursery next door to the old toy shop and bike manufacturer in High Holborn. The plans seek to change the use of the building from a retail store to a day nursery, as well as install new windows at the front of the building. If approved, it would see the historic family enterprise become a new day nursery. The plans will now be considered by council planners. Before he closed, Mr Price issued a heartfelt thank you to the many customers the store has welcomed over the years who supported the business. He said: 'We've encountered a lot of incredibly nice people over the years and I would like to thank them for supporting us.'
BBC News
24-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Former Shipley hospital could reopen as day nursery
A hospital shuttered by the NHS could be turned into a day nursery, if plans are approved by Bradford Hospital was closed in January after serving the town for a century, with the NHS saying the repairs and modernisation needed to keep it operating would be too including physiotherapy were moved to other Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust health centres and the building was put on the buyer Magic Roundabout Nurseries, a chain based in London, has applied to the council to change its use and also to carry out internal works, repairs and refurbishment at the site. The hospital's closure was first announced in 2019, prompting concern from politicians and users about people having to travel further for care.A public consultation heard worries about the cost of getting to appointments in other towns, particularly for patients who could not the Covid-19 pandemic gave the facility, on Kirkgate, a temporary reprieve before it closed its doors for good earlier this year. 'No significant changes' The trust said any income from the building's sale would go towards construction of Shipley Health and Wellbeing Campus, which was being built on the town's Cellar Trust Roundabout Nurseries currently has branches in London, Bristol, Nottingham and to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the company's application said if its plans were approved, there would be "no significant changes" to the property, which was originally built as a home in 1863."Whilst initial improvements will be made to fit the accommodation for its new purpose these will be restricted to the interior," it said."Among the facilities which may be developed will be holiday club use, training rooms and studios, and a family support centre."A decision on the planning application is expected in July. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
