Plans have been submitted to Bridgend council to demolish the former Hyfrydol care home in Cemetery Road, Garth, and replace it with 13 affordable homes.
The facility, on the outskirts of Maesteg, has not been in use since 2018 and has fallen into a state of disrepair, with the building described as being "vacant and deteriorating".
Proposed Development Details
Once completed, the development would consist of a mixture of affordable properties, including four one-bedroom adapted apartments, four two-bedroom adapted apartments, and five two-bedroom houses.
The plans also include upgraded access from Cemetery Road, with landscaping and associated infrastructure works, as well as the provision of one parking space per bedroom.
The application states that the two-storey houses would be clad in pennant stone and red-facing bricks, with a design that aims to respect the character of the surrounding residential area.
Application and Next Steps
The Maesteg scheme was submitted on behalf of Bluefield Land for the development of the new properties in October 2026. If given the green light, it could see the transformation of the site, which is marked as being within a regeneration growth area in the council's local development plan.
The application said: "The proposed development seeks to comprehensively redevelop the site, replacing the existing vacant and deteriorating former care home with a high-quality residential scheme that responds positively to its surroundings."
"In doing so, the proposals will bring a long-standing brownfield site back into beneficial use, removing an underutilised and visually poor asset and addressing issues associated with vacancy and decline."
The plans will now be decided on by Bridgend council's planning department in the coming months. They come just weeks after calls were made by the council to lobby Welsh Government over the number of empty sites in the borough that had been given planning permission for housing but had never been built on.
