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SOUTHPORT

CELEBRATING

25 YEARS

CASH OR CARD

9 October 2019

Vol 26 l Issue 41

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EVIL FRAUDSTER’S CARE HOME SET TO BE DEMOLISHED Peter Andre.

Peter Andre to switch on festive lights POP star Peter Andre has been announced as the headliner for Southport Christmas Switch On event next month. The reality and TV star will be coming to the town on Sunday, November 17 to perform and formally switch on this year’s lights organised by the Southport BID group and around 6,000 visitors are expected to attend the event. He is best known for his successful music and television career and in the 1990s he became the sixth highest selling artist in the UK. He had numerous number one hit singles, two number one albums and toured all over the world collecting awards Continued inside

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David Barton.

Former luxury facility where conman David Barton stole millions from residents could soon be replaced by houses Report by Danielle Thompson

A LUXURY care home where fraudster David Barton scammed residents out of millions of pounds could be bulldozed to make way for a new housing development. Care home owner, David Barton, 64, was found guilty in July 2018 of stealing more than £4million from elderly residents at the luxury Barton Park Nursing Home in Oxford Road, Birkdale. Barton, who befriended and then cheated the pensioners out of their life savings and was jailed for 21 years by a judge who told him he was ‘morally bankrupt.’ The home, known as Barton Park, had been banned from taking on new residents for two years and in August 2018, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) took urgent action to close it. The watchdog said the ‘quality of care’ at the home had ‘deteriorated significantly’ and the management were unable to make quality improvements.

The former Barton Park nursing home could be bulldozed to make way for new homes, inset

The 17,341 sq ft property, on an acre-sized site, had room for up to 60 residents. Applicant Lee Collins has now submitted a planning application to Sefton Council to demolish the care home and replace it with three detached three-storey to four-storey dwellings with basements, integrated garages and landscaping.

The site has been redundant since the care home closed in August, 2018 and the site was purchased in May, 2019 by L&C developments based on Lulworth Road in Southport with the aim of redeveloping the site for residential use. The consultation on the planning application runs until Sunday, October 27.

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