A FORMER residential home in Shadsworth could be turned into a hostel for the homeless.
Shadsworth House on Dunoon Drive has been the target of vandals and arsonists since it was closed as an OAP home by Blackburn with Darwen Council in 1999 as part of a social services review.
An anonymous Manchester businessman splashed out £123,000 on the 32-bedroom when the property came under the hammer at auction. When the council sold the home in 1999, it refused to say who to, citing commercial confidentiality.
Now Mr C Yaseen of Devonport Road, Blackburn, has applied for planning permission to convert the building into a homeless hostel.
Since it closed, it has been monitored by a private security firm which says it has set up cameras inside the building. In 2000, it was temporarily used to house 50 Kosovar refugees.
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