An even bigger residential care home will be built at a former motel in Thorrington after plans were approved.
Tendring Council had already approved plans for a 40-bed care home at the Silverwoods site in Tenpenny Hill but the developer, Nelson Housing, has now been given permission to provide an additional 24 beds at the site.
Cheryl Lumb, the applicant's agent, argued that the care home would need to provide the extra capacity in order to make the development economically viable.
Formerly known as Silver Springs, the site has 32 chalets, which have been home for up to 60 people.
The site was previously used to provide accommodation for asylum seekers in 2001, and later for homeless people.
In November 2005, a five-year-old girl died at the site following a fire in one of the chalets.
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