As The Press reported back in March last year, there were plans for a 'groundbreaking' scheme to convert the former Morrell House care home in Clifton into a communal living
block and it was approved by councillors on the former Liberal Democrat and Green run coalition council.
At that point two community housing groups, YorSpace Community Land Trust and OpHouse, were behind the plans to develop it into affordable flats run as a co-op.
It was planned for the old care home, which closed in 2018, to be transformed into 12 flats and a six-person house of multiple occupation (HMO).
Since then local residents have said the property has been empty so long it’s now attracting anti-social behaviour and youths climbing on the roof.
An Freedom of Information(FOI) request submitted to the council shows that the council is paying £51.45 a week for security to visit the property.
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