A £2m resource centre for adults with learning disabilities is on the cards for Witham.
The new base will allow people with learning disabilities to meet friends, find out information and get help with personal problems, and for parents of special needs people to use as a respite.
The plan will be discussed in more detail by Essex County Council's community care select committee tonight.
If the scheme is passed by members and gets the go-ahead by the council cabinet, work could start in 2004.
Braintree already has The Diana Golding Centre, for people with special needs, in Coggeshall Road, and Pyefleet Lodge and Leywood Resource Centre, both in Leywood Close.
But the plan is to sell the Leywood site and use the funds to create the new centre in Witham.
Published Wednesday December 19, 2001
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